[1760–70]This word is first recorded in the period 1760–70. Other words that entered Englishat around the same time include: boutique, broadcast, genre, plunk, right of way
Examples of 'coarse-grained' in a sentence
coarse-grained
It consists of a mixed sedimentation, detrital andvolcanoclastic, generally coarse-grained towards the base.
Saâdi, Z., Fedan, B., Laadila, M., Azzouz, O., Sanz de Galdeano, C. 2012, 'Las sucesiones terrígenas del Triásico superior y la base del Jurásico del Alto Muluya(Marruecos): estratigrafía y contexto geodinámico', Estudios Geologicoshttp://estudiosgeol.revistas.csic.es/index.php/estudiosgeol/article/view/828/860. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
A characteristic, coarse-grained dendritic microstructure occurs in the investigated alloys in the as-cast condition.
Bała P. 2014, 'The Dilatometric Analysis of the High Carbon Alloys from Ni-Ta-Al-M System', Archives of Metallurgy and Materialshttp://www.degruyter.com/view/j/amm.2014.59.issue-3/amm-2014-0164/amm-2014-0164.xml?format=INT. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
Polymer chains are modeled as a coarse-grained bead-spring system.
Mark A. Wilson, Arlette R. C. Baljon 2017, 'Microstructural Origins of Nonlinear Response in Associating Polymers under OscillatoryShear', Polymershttps://www.mdpi.com/2073-4360/9/11/556. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
The shear dilation of coarse-grained soils increases with the increase in maximum grain size.
Renjie Wen, Cai Tan, Yong Wu, Chen Wang 2018, 'Grain Size Effect on the Mechanical Behavior of Cohesionless Coarse-Grained Soilswith the Discrete Element Method', Advances in Civil Engineeringhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2018/4608930. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)