roughness

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Fingerprints provide roughness and grip to your fingers.

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a texture of a surface or edge that is not smooth but is irregular and uneven

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of roughness gathered in one view.

noun

a texture of a surface or edge that is not smooth but is irregular and uneven

noun

the quality of being unpleasant (harsh or rough or grating) to the senses

noun

an unpolished unrefined quality; "the crudeness of frontier dwellings depressed her"

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for roughness.

noun

a texture of a surface or edge that is not smooth but is irregular and uneven

noun

the quality of being unpleasant (harsh or rough or grating) to the senses

noun

an unpolished unrefined quality; "the crudeness of frontier dwellings depressed her"

noun

used of the sea during inclement or stormy weather

noun

rowdy behavior

See also: rowdiness, rowdyism, disorderliness

noun

the formation of small pits in a surface as a consequence of corrosion

noun

harsh or severe speech or behavior; "men associate the roughness of nonstandard working-class speech with masculinity"; "the roughness of her voice was a signal to keep quiet"

Example sentences

Fingerprints provide roughness and grip to your fingers.

It's also not beating per se which people find unpleasant but rapid beating -roughness.

Any roughness in the resulting image can be fixed in a couple of minutes in Photoshop.

Does Gamelan try to produce 'roughness'-ie rapid beating - or just beating - which I could imagine would be quite cool.

Some have physical needs which change with time; I recall one girl who preferred a bit of roughness early in play and a gentler touch later on.

I strongly believe the outcome is inevitable, only the roughness of the journey is left to ascertain.

I think most judges look at demos and want to see something authentic, something that was really built during the hackathon and will excuse roughness around the edges.

"The roughness of the fractal dimension of a problem that needs to be solved can be calculated more easily in my opinion than with classical estimation techniques.

The fun part for me back then was optimizing that translation with respect to the machine's capabilities so you can do things like minimize machining time while maximizing tool life and keeping surface roughness within tolerances.

Admittedly, these "amateurs" didn't have the best design for their sites, and browsers were less featureful than they are today, but somehow the "roughness" and "wild" nature of those days felt like far more of a user-empowering Web than it is today.

There are some interactions between the weights chosen and standard regularization that creates non-uniform spatial resolution propeties, so much of the work was spent designing roughness penalties that played nice with the weightings.

"Other important biophysical changes alter the amount of water that evaporates or transpires from plants and the soil, the roughness or unevenness of the plant canopy, and ultimately the extent of convective clouds and rainfall.