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Vinony

granularity

noun

  1. level of detail within data of entities stored in a data warehouse
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Wiktionary

Pronunciation: /ˌɡɹæn.jəˈlæɹ.ə.ti/ / /ˌɡɹæn.jəˈlɝ.ə.ti/

noun

Etymology: Etymology tree English granular Proto-Indo-European *-teh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-ts Proto-Indo-European *-teh₂ts Latin -itāsder. Old French -itebor. Middle English -ite English -ity English granularity From granular + -ity.

  1. The condition of being granular.

    “By granularity we mean the length of time to execute a multitaskable segment of the original program on a single CPU. Granularity is measured in time units, rather than floating point operations, […]”

  2. The extent to which something is granular.