granule
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See also granulé
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From Late Latin granulum, diminutive of Latin granum (“‘grain’”); see grain.
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granule (plural granules)
- A tiny grain, a small particle.
- (geology) A fragment of rock etc., larger than a sand grain and smaller than a pebble.
- (astronomy) a small mark in the photosphere of the sun caused by convection currents. See also Wikipedia:Granule (solar physics).
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- granule in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
- granule in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911

