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roughnesses

roughnesses is the plural of roughness.

Meaning of roughness

Noun

roughness (countable and uncountable, plural roughnesses)

  1. The property of being rough, coarseness.
    • The roughness of the road made me wonder if my car would fall apart.
  2. Something that is rough; a rough spot.
    • 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.2003, Klaus Bange, “Surfaces of Substrate Glasses”, in Thin Films on Glass, Springer Science & Business Media, page 101
  3. (US) Roughage; coarse fodder.
    • With this latter implement, the corn stalk fodder, shucks, oats, hay and other "roughness" may be finely cut up[…]1855, Southern Cultivator, volume 13, page 258
  4. (Scotland) Abundance, especially of food.
  5. (countable) A measure of how rough something is, such as a surface
    • The surface roughness was low.

Questions about roughnesses

What is roughnesses the plural of?
Roughnesses is the plural of roughness.

Words near roughnesses in the dictionary

  1. roughnecking
  2. roughnecks
  3. roughness
  4. roughness length
  5. roughness lengths
  6. roughnesses
  7. roughometer
  8. roughometers
  9. roughout
  10. roughouts
  11. roughride

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