fine grain
collocation in Englishmeaningsoffineandgrain
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fine
adjective
uk/faɪn/us/faɪn/
good or good enough; healthy ...
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grain
noun
uk/ɡreɪn/us/ɡreɪn/
a seed or seeds from a plant, especially a plant like a grass such as rice ...
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(Definition offineandgrainfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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There is no lower limit on this hierarchy; so theoretically, it can define contextual actions at a veryfinegrain.
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Unusually for a political scientist, he was interested both in thefinegrainof political history and in scientific method.
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Two-level concurrency of the components was used: coarse grain with operating system processes andfinegrainusing threads.
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Among the advantages of constituent-based evaluation are generality (less parser specificity) andfinegrainsize of the measures.
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However, much latent parallelism in functional programs is toofinegrainto be exploitable.
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Thisfinegrainjust cannot be achieved outside the laboratory.
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But how does the aggregate data-set like the archaeological data you're talking about relate to thefinegrain?
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It shows afinegrain-size grading in several sequences which are concordant to each other.
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The wide dispersal (> 550 km2), constant thickness,finegrainsize and ash-rich nature of unit 2, indicate a phreatoplinian origin.
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Many of the black shales exhibit few features optically due to theirfinegrainsize.
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Withfinegrainparallelism, memory contention becomes the problem.
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They then point out that thefinegrainpreference can be divided into two kinds, the close-grain preference and the small-grain preference.
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The screen can either be a free-standing single crystal or a polycrystallinefinegrainphosphor.
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