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Encyclopedia > Grain (disambiguation)
Look up grain in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.

"Cereal" - grain is the fruit (or "seed") of a grass, see caryopsis. Wikipedia does not have an article with this exact name. ... Wiktionary (a portmanteau of wiki and dictionary) is a multilingual, Web-based project to create a free content dictionary, available in over 150 languages. ... Grain redirects here. ... For other uses, see Fruit (disambiguation). ... A ripe red jalapeño cut open to show the seeds For other uses, see Seed (disambiguation). ... For other uses, see Grass (disambiguation). ... In botany, a caryopsis is a type of simple dry fruit — one that is moncarpelate (formed from a single carpel) and indehiscent (not opening at maturity) and resembles an achene, except that in a caryopsis the pericarp is fused with the thin seed coat. ...

  • GRAIN - is an international non-governmental organization for sustainable agriculture.

Grain may also refer to course particles: The word grain has several meanings, most being descriptive of a small piece or particle. ...

  • Film grain, the fineness of image resolution for photographic film
  • "Fine-grained", designating a more finely differentiated form of a technical or abstract system, in contrast to "coarse-grained", a less differentiated one.
  • Grain (measure), a mass of 64.79891 milligrams, 1/7,000th of an avoirdupois pound
  • Grain 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
  • Wood grain, the alignment and texture of the fibres in wood.

Or, more generally: Film grain or granularity is the random optical texture of processed photographic film due to the presence of small grains of a metallic silver developed from silver halide that have received enough photons. ... Differentiation can mean the following: In biology: cellular differentiation; evolutionary differentiation; In mathematics: see: derivative In cosmogony: planetary differentiation Differentiation (geology); Differentiation (logic); Differentiation (marketing). ... A grain is a unit of mass equal to 0. ... This article deals with grain size in the context of geology, see crystallite for grain size in materials science. ... A crystallite is a domain of solid-state matter that has the same structure as a single crystal. ... The Space Shuttle is initially launched with the help of solid-fuel boosters A Solid rocket or a solid fuel rocket is a rocket with a motor that uses solid propellants (fuel/oxidizer). ... Granular synthesis is a sound synthesis method that operates on the microsound time scale. ... Wood grain describes the alignment, texture and appearance of the wood fibres. ...

Grain is a stream cipher designed for restricted hardware environments and submitted to eSTREAM in 2004 by Martin Hell, Thomas Johansson and Willi Meier. ... Grain church The Isle of Grain, (OE Greon meaning gravel) is in north Kent, England at the eastern end of the Hoo peninsula. ... The small village of Grain takes its name from the Isle of Grain, on which it is virtually the only settlement. ...

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