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Fine-grained   /faɪn-greɪnd/   Listen
Fine-grained

adjective
1.
Consisting of fine particles.  Synonyms: powdered, powdery, pulverised, pulverized, small-grained.  "Powdery snow" , "Pulverized sugar is prepared from granulated sugar by grinding"
2.
Dense or compact in structure or texture, as a wood composed of small-diameter cells.  Synonym: close-grained.  "Fine-grained rock"






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"Fine-grained" Quotes from Famous Books



... A noble tree, attaining a height of 120 feet. Wood pale, fine-grained; exquisite ...
— A Dictionary of Austral English • Edward Morris

... Dictionary, the best stones to choose for making gun-flints are those that are not irregular in shape; they should have, when broken, a greasy lustre, and be particularly smooth and fine-grained; the colour is of no importance, but it should be uniform in the same lump; and the more transparent the stones the better. Gun-flints are made with a hammer, and a chisel of steel that is not hardened. The stone is chipped by the hammer alone into pieces of the required thickness, which are fashioned ...
— The Art of Travel - Shifts and Contrivances Available in Wild Countries • Francis Galton

... of the trap rock varied considerably. At the contact, at Station 275, and for a distance of approximately 200 ft. west, corresponding to a thickness of about 60 ft. measured at right angles to the line of the contact, a very hard, fine-grained trap, almost black in color, was found, having a specific gravity of 2.98, and weighing 186 lb. per cu. ft. The hardness of this rock is attested by the fact that the average time required to drill a 10-ft. hole in the heading, with a No. 34 slugger drill, with air at ...
— Transactions of the American Society of Civil Engineers, vol. LXVIII, Sept. 1910 - The Bergen Hill Tunnels. Paper No. 1154 • F. Lavis

... understand the source of the 18 inches of sandy loam, which differed from the overlying dark vegetable mould, after both had been burnt, only in being of a brighter red colour, and in not being quite so fine-grained. But on this view we must suppose that the carbon in vegetable mould, when it lies at some little depth beneath the surface and does not continually receive decaying vegetable matter from above, loses its dark colour ...
— The Formation of Vegetable Mould through the action of worms with • Charles Darwin



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