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'''Grain''' refers to coarse particles (e.g. ''grain of sand'', ''grain of salt''): |
'''Grain''' refers to coarse particles (e.g. ''grain of sand'', ''grain of salt''): |
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*[[Food grain]]s the small, hard, fruits or seeds of arable crops or the crops bearing these fruits or seeds. Includes the: |
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**[[cereal]] grains ([[caryopsis]] of [[grass]] plants |
**[[cereal]] grains ([[caryopsis]] of [[grass]] plants |
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**[[pseudocereals]]: starchy grains produced by broadleaf plants; used like true cereals |
**[[pseudocereals]]: starchy grains produced by broadleaf plants; used like true cereals |
Revision as of 20:57, 9 July 2010
Look up grain in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.
Grain refers to coarse particles (e.g. grain of sand, grain of salt):
- Food grains the small, hard, fruits or seeds of arable crops or the crops bearing these fruits or seeds. Includes the:
- Film grain, the gritty texture sometimes apparent on images produced using photographic film or paper (grainy)
- "Fine-grained", designating a more finely differentiated form of a technical or abstract system, in contrast to "coarse-grained", a less differentiated one
- Grain (mass), a mass of 64.79891 milligrams, 1/7,000th of an avoirdupois pound
- Grain, or Particle size, for particles of rock in geology
- Crystallite or "grain" in metallurgy, a single crystal inside solid-state matter
- Grain, a solid propellant charge, roughly a hollow cylinder, sometimes textured, and possibly very large
- Granular synthesis, a method for digital musical instruments operating on the "microsound" time scale
- Grain (surfboard company), a company that manufactures hollow wooden surfboards
- Wood grain, the alignment and texture of the fibres in wood
Or, more generally:
- Grain (cipher), a stream cipher designed for restricted hardware environments and submitted to eSTREAM in 2004 by Martin Hellman et al.
- Isle of Grain in Kent, England, on which lies the village of Grain
- GRAIN - is an international non-governmental organization for sustainable agriculture