granularity

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G0231300 (grăn′yə-lər)adj.1. Composed or appearing to be composed of granules or grains: granular sugar; granular snow.2. a. Having a high level of detail, as in a set of data: a more granular report that shows daily rather than weekly sales figures.b. Consisting of multiple diverse or discrete elements: granular income streams from a variety of tenants.3. Biology Containing granules: granular cells.

gran′u·lar′i·ty (-lăr′ĭ-tē) n.gran′u·lar·ly adv.

granularity

(ˌɡrænjʊˈlærɪtɪ) n1. the state or quality of being grainy or granular2. the state or quality of being composed of many individual pieces or elements

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granularity - the quality of being composed of relatively large particlesgraininess, coarsenessraggedness, roughness - a texture of a surface or edge that is not smooth but is irregular and unevensandiness - a texture resembling that of sand

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[‚gran·yə′lar·əd·ē] (graphic arts) The distribution of grains in a portion of photographic material that has been uniformly exposed and processed. (petrology) The feature of rock texture relating to the size of the constituent grains or crystals. (systems engineering) The degree to which a system can be broken down into separate components, making it customizable and flexible.

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(jargon, parallel)The size of the units of code underconsideration in some context. The term generally refers tothe level of detail at which code is considered, e.g. "You canspecify the granularity for this profiling tool".

The most common computing use is in parallelism where "finegrain parallelism" means individual tasks are relatively smallin terms of code size and execution time, "coarse grain" isthe opposite. You talk about the "granularity" of theparallelism.

The smaller the granularity, the greater the potential forparallelism and hence speed-up but the greater the overheadsof synchronisation and communication.

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The degree of modularity of a system. More granularity implies more flexibility in customizing a system, because there are more, smaller increments (granules) from which to choose.

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noun the quality of being composed of relatively large particles

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