granulation

From Late Latin grānulum (“granule”) +‎ -ation.[1] Attested earlier than granule and granulate. By surface analysis, granulate +‎ -ion.

• Rhymes: -eɪʃən

granulation (countable and uncountable, plural granulations)

1. The formation of granules, or of cereal grains.
   1. The forming of metals into granules by pouring them through a sieve into water while hot.
2. (uncountable) The condition of being granulated.
3. (medicine) Granulated tissue on the surface of a healing wound; granulation tissue.
4. (astronomy) A bright, transient granular marking on the Sun's photosphere.
5. The attachment of granules of precious metal to underlying metal of jewellery.

• grain
• granular
• granularity
• granulate
• granulatory
• granule

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granulation f (plural granulations)

1. granulation

• “granulation”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.