coarse-grained
Example Sentences
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These areas have coarse-grained sand, gravel and cobbles that make for highly permeable pathways to replenish groundwater.
From Los Angeles Times • May 8, 2024
"We used coarse-grained molecular dynamic simulations, which although offering lower resolution allowed us to study the aggregation of multiple IDPs in a mixture."
From Science Daily • Apr. 2, 2024
The Stone of Destiny, described as coarse-grained, pinkish buff sandstone, is seen as a historic symbol of Scotland's monarchy.
From BBC • Sep. 12, 2022
A fractal is a particular repeating coarse-grained to fine-grain pattern, such as a tree whose forking patterns repeat in its branches, twigs, and leaf veins.
From Salon • Jun. 15, 2021
Believing that Meggers’s survey had been too coarse-grained, Heckenberger and Petersen decided to search a single area intensively.
From "1491" by Charles C. Mann
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
