Granularity
The term granularity ( Latin - granum : "grain, core") generally describes the small parts of a thing. In detail, it stands for:
- Grain (photo) , the graininess of an image in photography
- Granularity (linguistics) , the sharpness of a linguistic expression
- Granularity (communication science) , the "accuracy of fit" of information from the recipient's point of view
- Granularity (credit) , the size structure of bank loans in a loan portfolio
- Degree of division of a substance in process engineering
IT:
- Granularity (data) , the degree of compression of data
- Granularity (system architecture) , the number of subdivisions of an element of a parallel computer architecture
See also:
- Granular matter
- The granular society , title of a book by the sociologist Christoph Kucklick
Wiktionary: Granularity - explanations of meanings, word origins, synonyms, translations
