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fine-grained

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Or is it that fine-grained funding is more compelling and will thus elicit more donations?

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Quick take

consisting of fine particles; "powdered cellulose"; "powdery snow"; "pulverized sugar is prepared from granulated sugar by grinding"

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adjective

consisting of fine particles; "powdered cellulose"; "powdery snow"; "pulverized sugar is prepared from granulated sugar by grinding"

adjective

dense or compact in structure or texture, as a wood composed of small-diameter cells; "close-grained birch"; "fine-grained rock"

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for fine-grained.

adjective

dense or compact in structure or texture, as a wood composed of small-diameter cells; "close-grained birch"; "fine-grained rock"

See also: close-grained

Example sentences

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Or is it that fine-grained funding is more compelling and will thus elicit more donations?

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It doesn't need to be that fine-grained. What we need is the ability to overdrive the brightness of specific pixels.

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Most of my contacts are sorted into multiple circles so that I have more fine-grained sharing control. G+ also makes it fairly easy to create new circles on the fly for when I want to share a message with an even more specific group.

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But that's too fine-grained for experienced programmers. Chess masters don't need to be shown the legal moves on a board for a bishop; their understanding of the problem is so innate at that point that they no longer play the game in such elementary terms.

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Not just fine-grained subdivision of property rights, but concurrent use mediated by tort-like mechanisms of enforcing "sociable" behavior. I think that technology needs to be rolled out all over the TV bands and the cellular bands.

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Indeed, Also, I know from considerable experience that the plus operator had a distinct meaning from the quotes operator so this change definitely implies that Google queries will be less fine-grained no matter what quotes means now. Yes, Google is worse and worse for anything technical.

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Because something you do relatively early in the compiler is throw away all of the structure of the source, including flattening nested expressions into a linear IR. Mapping back to line numbers in the debugger is a bit hacky to begin with, and mapping back in an even more fine-grained way would be more complex still.

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There's all sorts of enterprise-class big data simulation products out there where you can simulate an environment in extremely fine-grained fashion using a near-unfathomable amount of data points. -- TL;DR - The notion that NSA isn't getting everything is laughable.

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Still, using such a fine-grained bit of internal jargon, even if it makes sense among people who share your terms, is deceptive if used to hoodwink the public and Congress, exactly as the 'collect' finesse definition was long used.

Frequently asked questions

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How do you use fine-grained in a sentence?

Or is it that fine-grained funding is more compelling and will thus elicit more donations?

What does fine-grained mean?

consisting of fine particles; "powdered cellulose"; "powdery snow"; "pulverized sugar is prepared from granulated sugar by grinding"

What part of speech is fine-grained?

fine-grained is commonly used as adjective.