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How to use granule in a sentence

30 example sentences · noun

Granule means a tiny grain, a small particle. Example: “The key task of approximating with granules is seeking for the tightest envelope for the approximand.”

More sentences with granule

  • The key task of approximating with granules is seeking for the tightest envelope for the approximand.2012, Moamar Sayed-Mouchaweh, Edwin Lughofer, Learning in Non-Stationary Environments: Methods and Applications, page 275. From the entry approximand
  • Disposable nappies contain superabsorber granules which are made of a chemical which swells to absorb the urine.2010, Lynoa Cattanach, Be a Greener Parent: Teach Yourself, →ISBN. From the entry superabsorber
  • Production of rubber granules, or crumb, is well-established in this country.2007, R. E. Hester, R. M. Harrison, Waste Treatment and Disposal, page 109. From the entry crumb
  • Ovoplasma is frequently discoloured, and organization of organelles (e. g. yolk granules) is not symmetrical.2002, Agnes Christine Gundersen, Reproduction of West-Nordic Greenland Halibut: Studies Reflecting on Maturity, Fecundity, Spawning and…. From the entry ovoplasma
  • The other constituents (endogangue) are goethite, attapulgite and fine quartz granules.1989, A. J. G. Notholt, D. F. Davidson, R. P. Sheldon (editors), Phosphate Deposits of the World: Volume 2, Phosphate Rock Resources…. From the entry endogangue
  • Glauconite occurs as granules which may be mixed in all proportions with ordinary sand.1972, F[rancis] J[ohn] Pettijohn, Paul Edwin Potter, Raymond Siever, Sand and Sandstone, Berlin; Heidelberg: Springer-Verlag, →ISBN…. From the entry greensand
  • Lamellae and starch granules appear first in the plastonema and later in the plastosome.1961, University of California, Davis, Summaries of Dissertations Submitted in Partial Satisfaction of the Requirements for the Degree of…. From the entry plastosome
  • It contained many cysts which were filled with sagolike granules that could be expressed under pressure.1949, United States Naval Medical Bulletin, volume 49, number 1, page 61. From the entry express
  • These granules later (early spermatocytes) disappear from the nucleus simultaneously with the disappearance of the plastosome.1917, Proceedings of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, page 258. From the entry plastosome
  • Can we then associate these granules with the ultimate units of life?1912, James Young Simpson, The Spiritual Interpretation of Nature, Hodder and Stoughton, page 73. From the entry extravital
  • Sometimes accompanied by acceleration, ricing is different in that it creates small individual clumps of soap that look like rice granules.2016, Anne-Marie Faiola, Pure Soapmaking, Storey Publishing, →ISBN, page 14. From the entry ricing
  • One important difference is the pericarp of sorghum is more bran-like and contains starch granules in the cells.2009, Stanley P. Cauvain, Linda S. Young, The ICC Handbook of Cereals, Flour, Dough & Product Testing: Methods and Applications, DEStech…. From the entry pericarp
  • They also found rounded granules that are probably accretionary lapilli — volcanic hailstones, formed as material gathers in the air.2007 May 8, Henry Fountain, “It’s Still Dark Out, So Why Are the Birds Singing Away?”, in New York Times. From the entry lapillus
  • In an actual fragmented bed, the granules will not be equisized, but will have a distribution of sizes.2004, Z. P. Bazant, Z. Bittnar, M. Jirasek, Fracture and Damage in Quasibrittle Structures. From the entry equisized
  • They are small granules of plasmatic substance occurring at the junctions of the meshes of the alveolar protoplasm.1914, Isaac Bayley Balfour, Roland Thaxter, Vernon Herbert Blackman, Annals of Botany - Volume 28, page 438. From the entry plasmatic
  • Yellow-ochre is the universal colour, and mealy granules befrost the caps (under 1′′ broad) and stems up to their friable, indefinite rings.2014, James H. Willis, Victorian Toadstools and Mushrooms. From the entry befrost
  • Large bundles of axopodia radiate from an axoplast granule at each smaller pore, and the large pore is said to act as a cytostome.2013, P.C. Reid, Carol Turley, P.H. Burkill, Protozoa and Their Role in Marine Processes, →ISBN, page 27. From the entry axoplast
  • Normal promyelocytes are loaded with toxic enzymes and granules that are usually released by adult white blood cells to kill viruses, bacteria, and parasites.2010, Siddhartha Mukherjee, The Emperor of All Maladies, Fourth Estate (2011), pages 407–408. From the entry promyelocyte
  • The granule cell parallel fibers activate several arrays of onbeam Purkinje cells (Fig. 1), which strongly inhibit their target neurons in the interpositus nucleus.2007, Alan Longstaff, BIOS Instant Notes in Neuroscience, →ISBN. From the entry onbeam
  • The cell is provided with a nucleus at the base and usually filled with coarse granules, which are fuchsinophil as well as edsinophil.1956, Saitama Daigaku, The Science Reports of the Saitama University. From the entry fuchsinophil
  • The young nematocyst decreases in size and becomes coarsely granular, the granules arranging themselves in a spiral line close under the external membrane.1902, Arthur Willey, Zoological Results Based on Material from New Britain, New Guinea, Loyalty Islands and Elsewhere, page 379. From the entry nematocyst
  • The nucleus contains the following more or less distinct parts: chromioles, chromomeres, chromosomes, chromoplasts, linoplasts, linin, chromoplasm, endochromatic granules, and parachromatic granules.1900 January, Gustav Eisen, “A Preliminary Account of the Spermatogenesis of Batrachoseps attenuatus, Polymorphous spermatogonia…. From the entry chromomere
  • He jabbed his fingers into his hair and worked the dirt from the follicles, watched it swirl away down the plughole, sandy granules, flakes of dust and ash.2022, Liam McIlvanney, The Heretic, page 199. From the entry plughole
  • Their dense core, composed of protein granules or fibrils closely adjacent to each other, is surrounded by filamentous aggregates or superaggregates in the form of a ring.2016, Nikolay Petrovich Omelyanenko, Leonid Ilyich Slutsky, Sergey Pavlovich Mironov, Connective Tissue, page 339. From the entry superaggregate
  • It is now clear that the Prussian-blue-positive haemosiderin granule of the light microscopist represents either a large siderosome, a clump of smaller siderosomes or compounds siderosomes.2013, Feroze N. Ghadially, ltrastructural Pathology of the Cell and Matrix, →ISBN. From the entry siderosome
  • In these, highly active enteric-coated granules, pellets, or minitablets are to be found in gelatin capsules which disintegrate rapidly (2-3 min) in the stomach regardless of the pH.1991, G.J. Peschke, “Active components and galenic aspects of enzyme preparations”, in Pancreatic Enzymes in Health and Disease, →DOI. From the entry minitablet
  • The cigarette holder that uses a plastic cylinder filled with granules of silica reduced the nicotine content by 14 percent and the tar content by 21 percent.1943, Health Yearbook 1954, →ISBN, page 145. From the entry cigarette holder
  • This process of extraction was repeated 4 times, each time renewing ether, until the mother fluid appeared slightly opalesque and transparent with a few small granules.1923, The Kitasato Archives of Experimental Medicine - Volume 5, page 17. From the entry opalesque
  • With lichtgriin-fuchsin many ganglion cells showed numerous granules or droplets of fairly large size which stained various colors and may correspond to the so-called fuchsinophil (Fig. 4).1922, Archives of Neurology and Psychiatry - Volume 8, page 160. From the entry fuchsinophil
  • Granular, basic, or punctate degeneration of the erythrocyte is a condition in which this cell presents fine or coarse granules that have an affinity for basic stains.1901 September, C. Y. White, “Granular degeneration of the erythrocyte”, in The American Journal of the Medical Sciences, volume 122…. From the entry erythrocyte

Meaning of granule

  1. noun A tiny grain, a small particle.
  2. noun A small structure in a cell.
  3. noun A particle from 2 to 4 mm in diameter, following the Wentworth scale.

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Questions about granule in a sentence

How do you use granule in a sentence?
Granule is used as a noun. For example: “The key task of approximating with granules is seeking for the tightest envelope for the approximand.”
What is a short sentence with granule?
“Production of rubber granules, or crumb, is well-established in this country.”
What does granule mean?
Granule means a tiny grain, a small particle.

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