Modifies a noun

• sediment: Transport and escape of fine-grained sediment from shelf areas.

• sandstone: The building, which is of a fine-grained red sandstone, has apparently been at one period of great extent.

• limestone: However, these blades are made of fine-grained Cretaceous limestone of relatively low quality raw material.

• matrix: The mud has a fine-grained matrix with no visible inclusions.

• rock: So fine-grained rocks are in general more prone to these processes than coarse grained parts of the same rock type.

• soil: This, according to the proponents of the system, enables fine-grained soils to be compacted.

Modifying Another Word

• very: On the NE margin there are minor injections of a very fine-grained material.

• too: However, if you want to get home this weekend, don't be too fine-grained in the objectives you analyze.

• extremely: For this purpose, new cemented carbide compositions, based on extremely fine-grained carbide, have been introduced.

• so: The ore was so fine-grained that the mechanical methods of concentration then in use could not trap it.

Used with adjective complement

• provide: Methods for studying social interaction such as Conversational Analysis and Discourse Analysis would provide too fine-grained an analysis for the purposes of requirements gathering.