English

Etymology

Noun

1. A tiny grain, a small particle.
2. A fragment of rock etc., larger than a sand grain and smaller than a pebble.
3. a small mark in the photosphere of the sun caused by convection currents. See also Wikipedia:Granule (solar physics).

Translations

• Maori: pata

• Granule (solar physics), visible structures in the photosphere of the Sun arising from activity in the Sun's convective zone
• Granule (cell biology), any of several submicroscopic structures, some with explicable origins, others noted only as cell type-specific features of unknown function
• "Azurophil granule", a structure characteristic of the azurophil eukarytotic cell type
• "Chromaffin granule", a structure characteristic of the chromophil eukaryotic cell type
• Martian spherules, spherical granules of material found on the surface of the planet Mars
• A specified particle size of 2–4 millimetres (-1– -2 on the φ scale)

• In pharmaceutical terms, a granule is small particles gathered into a larger, permanent aggregate in which the original particles can still be identified

• In computing: a granule is a unit of contiguous (adjacent/bordering) virtual memory allocation.
• For the treatment of memory granules in the Oracle database, see granule (Oracle DBMS).

See also

• Granular material