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  1. Is the word "granular" a synonym for the word "specific"?

    Granularity is not a synonym for specificity, but as @FumbleFingers says, it's sometimes used as one. My best guess as to why is that managers in computing companies grabbed onto the technical …

  2. Opposite of "granular" - English Language & Usage Stack Exchange

    Jan 2, 2019 · What is the opposite of "granular" in the following usage? granularity The level of detail considered in a model or decision making process. The greater the granularity, the deeper the le...

  3. Unambiguous alternatives for "more/less granular" for data?

    Jan 6, 2023 · Granularity is built on the concept of the sieve. Real physical granularity uses 3-dimensional sieves and filters and screens to control for physical size of the grains. Metaphorical …

  4. What does "granular" mean in computer articles?

    Feb 7, 2014 · 2 Granular technical characterized by a high level of granularity: a granular database. Granularity technical the scale or level of detail present in a set of data or other phenomenon: the …

  5. What is a word for granularity that spans the entire range?

    There are two inputs I need for this histogram: interval, which defines the total date range for the diagram, and granularity, which defines the scope of each bar of the histogram. Example …

  6. grammatical number - Usage of "granularities" (in plural form ...

    Jun 13, 2014 · Conversely if granularity is shorthand for a specific grain size, such as in sand/sediment samples, or the salt grain size associated with photosensitive films of differing ISO levels (or their …

  7. Looking for the opposite of "drill down"

    Feb 26, 2013 · 5 Drill up or Roll up can be used as opposite of drill down.It makes use of a decreasing granularity showing things more globally

  8. What is the linguistic term for the various ways to signal that "no ...

    Jul 7, 2025 · "All of them" => "every [single] one of them" points to the fact that precision is tied to granularity. "All" may be understood to include a reasonable degree of rounding: "The whole nation …

  9. What do we call the noun to which a pronoun refers?

    Nov 14, 2020 · A simple answer is that the general terms suitable in most discourse domains are 'referent' or 'token'. Which to use is your choice, although 'token' may raise an eyebrow here and …

  10. Why is it always 'a friend of his' but no mandatory possessive ...

    Edit: Noting an apparent "progression" (pronoun -> person -> nation) marked by reduction in use of the possessive, I checked at a finer "granularity". NGram shows that although it does occur, friend of me …