Definition of granular in English English dictionary
Consisting of, or resembling, granules or grains; as, a granular substance. Grainy. Granular limestone, crystalline limestone, or marble, having a granular structure
This Whyn Dyke is bare at the cliffs ſeveral yards in height, and is near nine feet in width. It conſiſts of an inner part of a granular and ſomewhat porous texture.
The texture of groups or masses of minerals is said to be granular when distinct crystal faces are absent and the individual grains are about equal in length, breadth and height Grains of salt and sand are examples of granular minerals Granular texture is contrasted with crystalline texture
Fertilizer particles sized between an upper and lower limit or between two screen sizes, usually within the range of 1 to 4 mm and often more closely sized The desired size may be obtained by agglomerating smaller particles, crushing and screening larger particles, controlling size in crystallization processes, or prilling
Granular substances are composed of a lot of granules, or feel or look as if they are composed of a lot of granules. a granular fertiliser. consisting of granules
Consisting of or resembling, grains; as, a granular substance. Grainy. Granular limestone, crystalline limestone, or marble, having a granular structure
A specialized area in the field of Configuration Management that focuses on the visibility and control of an IT Environment’s configuration and bill-of-material at the most granular level. IT managers can leverage this strategy to reach the next level of automation and efficiency for their Physical, Virtual or Cloud-based IT environments, and finally close the gap that is responsible for major stability incidents. The application of granular configuration automation empowers IT managers to operate based on complete knowledge of the IT environments that they manage. This knowledge is collected from the granular level of IT environment data, and is collected from any source
the size of the smallest unit which can be independently locked A database may apply locks at the database level, the relation level, the tuple level, or on the value of a single attribute within a tuple
A term often used in parallel processing to indicate independent processes that could be distributed to multiple CPUs Fine granularity is illustrated by execution of statements or small loop iterations as separate processes; coarse granularity involves subroutines or sets of subroutines as separate processes The more processes, the "finer" the granularity and the more overhead required to keep track of them Granularity can also be related to the temporal duration of a "task" at work It is not only the number of processes but also how much work each process does, relative to the time of synchronization, that determines the overhead and reduces speedup figures
(n ) The size of operations done by a process between communications events A fine grained process may perform only a few arithmetic operations between processing one message and the next, whereas a coarse grained process may perform millions See also computation-to-communication ratio
Measure of the work done between synchronization points Fine-grained applications focus on execution at the instruction level of a program Such applications are load balanced but suffer from a low computation/communication ratio Coarse-grained applications focus on execution at the program level where multiple programs may be executed in parallel
The size of the operations done by a process between communication events A ``fine-grained'' process may perform only a few arithmetic operations between processing one message and the next, while a ``coarse-grained'' process may perform millions [Wil93]
The relative fineness or coarseness by which a mechanism can be adjusted The phrase "the granularity of a single user" means the access control mechanism can be adjusted to include or exclude any single user
Fineness, or atomic density of data; e g , fine granularity might be duration in seconds, coarse granularity in days Fine granularity is high atomic density, coarse is low Detailed, operational data is fine; summary is coarse
An objective measurement which correlates with the subjective appearance of graininess This and similar objective measurements indicate the ability of a film to record an image in terms that are meaningful from the standpoint of the appearance and usefulness of the photograph Granularity is the value published in the film data sheet for Kodak aerial films, and it is given as the root-mean-square (rms) granularity value
Describes the level of detail in a database A retail database that contains a separate detailed record down to the SKU level for every transaction would have high granularity
Degree of parallelism in an architecture, from job execution level (coarse) to logic device level (fine) Ability to increase system capacity and performance through incremental processor expansion
The ratio between the amount of computation each processor does and the amount of interprocessor communication which takes place See fine-grained parallelism and course-grained parallelism