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What (who) is granule - definition
WIKIMEDIA DISAMBIGUATION PAGE
Granules; Granule (disambiguation)
granule
(granules)
Granules are small round pieces of something.
She was spooning coffee granules into cups.
N-COUNT: usu pl, oft supp N
granule
n.
Little grain, small particle.
Granule
·noun A little grain a small particle; a pellet.
Wikipedia
Granule
A granule is a large particle or grain. It can refer to:
- Granule (cell biology), any of several submicroscopic structures, some with explicable origins, others noted only as cell type-specific features of unknown function
- Azurophilic granule, a structure characteristic of the azurophil eukaryotic cell type
- Chromaffin granule, a structure characteristic of the chromophil eukaryotic cell type.
- Astrophysics and geology:
- Granule (solar physics), a visible structure in the photosphere of the Sun arising from activity in the Sun's convective zone
- Martian spherules, spherical granules of material found on the surface of the planet Mars
- Granule (geology), a specified particle size of 2–4 millimetres (-1 to -2 on the φ scale)
- Granule, in pharmaceutical terms, small particles gathered into a larger, permanent aggregate in which the original particles can still be identified
- Granule (Oracle DBMS), a unit of contiguously allocated virtual memory
- Granular synthesis of sound
Examples of use of granule
1. Such Koryo medicines as pain–killing granule made of Carthamus tinctorius and blood smooth–flowing granule made of Angelica gigas Nak are potent for diabetes.
2. Blood–purifying antihypertensive granule good for cerebral thrombosis and hypertension and granule made of Astragalus membranaceus efficacious for angina pectoris and arteriosclerosis are enjoying popularity at home and abroad.
3. The work by micro–sculptor Willard Wigan is no larger than a granule of sugar and must be viewed through a microscope.
4. Not a granule of his remains has been identified, and nearly five years later, Ralph Geidel found himself on this roof, still searching.
5. She went to work in 2005 trying to identify a starch granule she saw in material provided by Raymond, who had been excavating a 6,100–year–old site in western Ecuador for many years.