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The electron can no longer be conceived as a single, small granule of electricity; it must be associated with a wave, and this wave is no myth; its wavelength can be measured and its interferences predicted.
Louis de Broglie

Meaning of "granule" in the English dictionary

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ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD GRANULE

From Late Latin grānulum a small grain.
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PRONUNCIATION OF GRANULE

granule  [ˈɡrænjuːl] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF GRANULE

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Granule is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES GRANULE MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Granule

A granule is a large particle or grain. It can also be- ▪ Granule, visible structures in the photosphere of the Sun arising from activity in the Sun's convective zone ▪ Granule, any of several submicroscopic structures, some with explicable origins, others noted only as cell type-specific features of unknown function ▪ "Azurophil granule", a structure characteristic of the azurophil eukarytotic cell type ▪ "Chromaffin granule", a structure characteristic of the chromophil eukaryotic cell type ▪ Martian spherules, spherical granules of material found on the surface of the planet Mars ▪ Granule, a specified particle size of 2–4 millimetres ▪ In pharmaceutical terms, a granule is small particles gathered into a larger, permanent aggregate in which the original particles can still be identified ▪ In the Oracle database, a unit of contiguously allocated virtual memory...

Definition of granule in the English dictionary

The definition of granule in the dictionary is a small grain. Other definition of granule is a single rock fragment in gravel, smaller than a pebble but larger than a sand grain.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH GRANULE


antennule
ænˈtɛnjuːl
capsule
ˈkæpsjuːl
cellule
ˈsɛljuːl
disseminule
dɪˈsɛmɪˌnjuːl
faunule
ˈfɔːnjuːl
gallinule
ˈɡælɪˌnjuːl
lunule
ˈluːnjuːl
module
ˈmɒdjuːl
molecule
ˈmɒlɪˌkjuːl
mule
mjuːl
pinnule
ˈpɪnjuːl
pulvinule
ˈpʌlvɪˌnjuːl
schedule
ˈʃɛdjuːl
spinule
ˈspaɪnjuːl
tulle
tjuːl
veinule
ˈveɪnjuːl
venule
ˈvɛnjuːl
you´ll
juːl
yule
juːl
zonule
ˈzɒnjuːl

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE GRANULE

granulary
granulate
granulated paper
granulated sugar
granulated surface
granulater
granulation
granulation tissue
granulative
granulator
granuliferous
granuliform
granulite
granulitic
granulitization
granulocyte
granulocytic
granulocytopenia
granuloma
granulomata

WORDS THAT END LIKE GRANULE

ampoule
as a rule
bascule
boule
common gallinule
home rule
joule
minuscule
on schedule
pilule
poule
purple gallinule
reschedule
rule
the rule
Thule
time capsule
tule
vestibule
work-to-rule

Synonyms and antonyms of granule in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

SYNONYMS OF «GRANULE»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «granule» and belong to the same grammatical category.
synonyms of granule
atom · crumb · fragment · grain · iota · jot · molecule · particle · scrap · speck

Translation of «granule» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF GRANULE

Find out the translation of granule to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of granule from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «granule» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

颗粒
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

gránulo
570 millions of speakers

English

granule
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

दाना
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

حبيبة
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

гранула
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

grânulo
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

কণিকা
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

granule
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Granul
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Körnchen
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

顆粒
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

과립
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Granule
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

hột nhỏ
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

மணியுருக்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

बारीक दात
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

granül
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

granulo
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

granulki
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

гранула
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

granule
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

κόκκος
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

korrel
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

granul
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

granule
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of granule

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «GRANULE»

The term «granule» is quite widely used and occupies the 36.225 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «GRANULE» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «granule» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «granule» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about granule

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QUOTES WITH «GRANULE»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word granule.
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Louis de Broglie
The electron can no longer be conceived as a single, small granule of electricity; it must be associated with a wave, and this wave is no myth; its wavelength can be measured and its interferences predicted.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «GRANULE»

Discover the use of granule in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to granule and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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The Hippocampus Book
The principal cell layer (granule cell layer) lies deep to the molecular layer and is made up of a densely packed layer that is four to eight granule cells thick. The granule cell and molecular layers (which together are sometimes referred to as ...
Per Andersen, 2007
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Development of the Nervous System
The mature cerebellum is made up of several distinct cell types, each repeated in an almost crystalline array (Figure 3.23). The two most distinctive of these cell types are the giant Purkinje cells and the very small granule cells. Purkinje cells ...
Dan H. Sanes, Thomas A. Reh, William A. Harris, 2005
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The Platelet-Amine Storage Granule
Since the pH of both the granule interior and the suspending medium measure 5.7 and 7.3, respectively, the pH-sensitivity of the chemical shift in some of the hydrogens discussed above allows determination of the concentration of intra- and ...
Kenneth M. Meyers, Charles D. Barnes, 1992
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The Dentate Gyrus: A Comprehensive Guide to Structure, ...
termination zones for the contact with defined segments of the granule cell's dendritic arbor. It is likely that many of the signals involved in these processes apply to both early-generated granule cells and granule cells generated in the adult ...
Helen E. Scharfman, 2011
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Pesticide Formulations and Application Systems
Liquid holding capacity measures the amount of liquid that the granule can absorb and still remain free flowing. A high liquid holding capacity allows the formulator to make a concentrated pesticide product (e.g.: 20G) or to combine several ...
John D. Nalewaja, G. Robert Goss, R. Scott Tann, 1998
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Starch: Chemistry and Technology
The amount of this variation can be seen, for example, by examining granule size distributions for wheat,158 rye158 triticale,158 potato,58 barley,61 maize57,59 and dropwort (Filipendula vulgaris).159 Differences in average starch granule ...
James N. BeMiller, Roy L. Whistler, 2009
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The Science and Engineering of Granulation Processes
Wet Granule Morphology' During the wet granulation process, the granule is a three phase system consisting of particles, liquid binder and air. The granulation process is very sensitive to the liquid content, more particularly to the level of liquid ...
Jim Litster, Bryan Ennis, Liu Lian, 2004
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Soybean Granule Recipes
In a 1 1/2 quart casserole dish, place half of the cooked noodles, and granule mixture. Bake at 350O for 20 minutes. Serves 6. USING HAM-FLAVORED GRANULES Try Ham Flavored Granules in: Macaroni Salad - cooked macaroni, chopped ...
Alan K. Briscoe, 1974
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Platelets
In platelets, wild-type α-SNAP augments granule secretion, whereas a dominant- negative α-SNAP mutant (α-SNAPL294A) and antibodies directed at α-SNAP inhibit granule secretion.101 The Sec1/Munc (SM) proteins are important regulators ...
Alan D. Michelson, 2012
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Receptor Dynamics in Neural Development
layer is formed in a general outside-in pattern, with the older granule neurons residing near the molecular layer and the younger cells near the hilus,5-29 it appears that more mature granule cells are most susceptible to ADX- induced death.
Christopher Ari Shaw, 1996

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «GRANULE»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term granule is used in the context of the following news items.
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Optimization of Parameter Selection for Partial Least Squares Model …
In addition, the Yinhuang granule dataset used 48 and 24 samples in the calibration and validation sets, respectively. The three different ... «Nature.com, Jul 15»
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Talensi by-election: Goodies were shared because of Ramadan …
He said “I never saw even a granule of fertilizer but indeed if I had gotten some, I would have added it as something that I will give to the people ... «Citifmonline, Jul 15»
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HBKU college gets QNRF grants for Parkinson's, breast cancer …
In 2000, he co-discovered stress granules within cells and in 2012 his observations connecting stress granule formation to prevention of ... «Peninsula On-line, Jul 15»
4
Primary cilia and autophagic dysfunction in Huntington's disease
By contrast, expression of polyQ-HTT fragments in CAD neuronal cells and primary cerebellar granule neurons in vitro did result in ... «Nature.com, Jul 15»
5
Is coated urea better than not coated?
According to Agrium Advanced Technologies, developers and marketers of Environmentally Safe Nitrogen, it is a urea granule coated with a ... «Agri-View, Jul 15»
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Birmingham City in Marbella - Brian Dick talks to the man who is …
He could be forgiven for fancying just a granule of revenge on their successors. Particularly given the fact his first day at Blues began with an ... «Birmingham Mail, Jul 15»
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Scientists Discover Stress-Fighting Pathway Could Help Develop …
... which leads to substantial ER swelling, an accumulation of inadequately processed proteins, and severe dysfunction in the granule. «Lung Disease News, Jul 15»
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DOC postpones final ruling on Chinese-made melamine products
Melamine is a crystalline powder or granule that is often used to produce melamine formaldehyde resins in a variety of products such as ... «Furniture Today, Jul 15»
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Public Release: 6-Jul-2015 Stress-fighting proteins could be key to …
... ER stress response, leading to the accumulation of incorrectly processed proteins, substantial ER swelling and severe granule dysfunction. «EurekAlert, Jul 15»
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Court dismisses preliminary injunction application in fenofibrate …
EP1275387 claims a method of preparing a granule that comprises spraying "a suspension of fenofibrate in micronized form having a size of ... «Lexology, Jul 15»

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