surface roughness
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component of surface finish (surface texture)
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It is catalogued under topics including Mechanical engineering, Metalworking terminology and Tribology.
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- quality
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- Commons category
- Surface roughness
- characteristic of
- physical surface
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Encyclopedic overview
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Surface roughness or simply roughness is the quality of a surface of not being smooth and it is hence linked to human (haptic) perception of the surface texture. From a mathematical perspective it is related to the spatial variability structure of surfaces, and inherently it is a multiscale property. It has different interpretations and definitions depending on the disciplines considered.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “surface roughness” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.