Granule Definition

grănyo͝ol
granules
noun
A small grain.
Webster's New World
A rock or mineral fragment larger than a sand grain and smaller than a pebble, between 2 and 4 millimeters in diameter.
American Heritage
A small, grainlike particle or spot; specif., any of the small, bright areas on the sun's photosphere that last only a few minutes.
Webster's New World
A cellular or cytoplasmic particle, especially one that stains readily.
American Heritage Medicine

Other Word Forms of Granule

Noun

Singular:
granule
Plural:
granules

Origin of Granule

  • Late Latin grānulum diminutive of Latin grānum grain gr̥ə-no- in Indo-European roots

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • From Late Latin granulum, diminutive of Latin granum (“grain”); see grain.

    From Wiktionary

Granule Sentence Examples

  • Centrosome.The centrosome is a minute homogeneous granule found in the cytoplasm of some cells in the neighborhood of the nucleus.

  • The concept produces a granule with a minimum heat history.

  • As the sum total of the wisdom propounded in the mystery of Agni, the searcher after truth is exhorted to meditate on that Self, made up of intelligence, endowed with a body of spirit, a form of light, and of an ethereal nature; holding sway over all the regions and pervading this All, being itself speechless and devoid of mental states; and by so doing he shall gain the assurance that "even as a grain of rice, or the smallest granule of millet, so is the golden Purusha in my heart; even as a smokeless light, it is greater than the sky, greater than the ether, greater than the earth, greater than all existing things; - that Self of the Spirit is my Self; on passing away from hence, I shall obtain that Self.

  • In the yeast cell the nucleus is represented by a homogenous granule, probably of a nucleolar nature, surrounded and perhaps to some extent impregnated by chromatin and closely connected with a vacuole which often has chromatin at its periphery, and contains one or more volutin granules which appear to consist of nucleic acid in combination with an unknown base.

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