roughness

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roughness

enPR: rŭf′nəs
(Received Pronunciation, General American, Canada, Scotland) IPA^(key): /ˈɹʌf.nəs/; (also Scotland) /ˈɹʌf.nʌs/
- Audio (US): (file)
(General Australian, New Zealand) IPA^(key): /ˈɹɐf.nəs/
(India) IPA^(key): /ˈɾəf.nes/
Hyphenation: rough‧ness

roughness (countable and uncountable, plural roughnesses)

The property of being rough, coarseness.
The roughness of the road made me wonder if my car would fall apart.
Something that is rough; a rough spot.
- 2003, Klaus Bange, “Surfaces of Substrate Glasses”, in Thin Films on Glass, Springer Science & Business Media, page 101:
  A variety of suitable methods for surface inspection are available to detect topographical defects induced by surface roughnesses such as scratches, digs, inclusions and spatters.
(US) Roughage; coarse fodder.
- 1855, Southern Cultivator, volume 13, page 258:
  With this latter implement, the corn stalk fodder, shucks, oats, hay and other "roughness" may be finely cut up […]
(Scotland) Abundance, especially of food.
(countable, engineering) A measure of how rough something is, such as a surface
The surface roughness was low.

the property of being rough

Bikol:
Central Bikol: ragkot (bcl)
Bulgarian: грапавост (bg) f (grapavost), грапавина (bg) (grapavina), неравност (bg) f (neravnost)
Catalan: aspredat f, aspresa f, aspror f
Czech: hrubost (cs) f
Dutch: ruwheid (nl)
Esperanto: maltrankvileco
German: Rauheit f, Grobheit (de) f
Greek:
Ancient Greek: τραχύτης f (trakhútēs)
Hindi: रूखापन (hi) m (rūkhāpan)
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Interlingua: please add this translation if you can
Latin: asperitās f
Latvian: raupjums m, negludums m, rupjums, rupjība f
Polish: chropowatość (pl) f
Romanian: asprime (ro) f, asperitate (ro)
Russian: шерохова́тость (ru) f (šeroxovátostʹ)
Spanish: aspereza (es) f
Turkish:
Ottoman Turkish: بیاغیلق (bayağılık) (of manners or language)
Volapük: please add this translation if you can