close-grained
Americanadjective
adjective
Etymology
Origin of close-grained
First recorded in 1745–55
Example Sentences
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It is based largely on a close-grained analysis of masses of sea surface and air temperature data collected over the century.
From New York Times • Sep. 22, 2010
In twelve books she has tried both to give a close-grained structure of regional manners and to trace the doings of the English merchant class from its ferment under Cromwell to its troubles under Attlee.
From Time Magazine Archive
The wood they found was dense and close-grained, unlike the spongy grain of the younger, forced-growth trees that are planted today.
From Time Magazine Archive
The tree is a small one at best, slow-growing, pyramidal, twenty to forty feet in height, with short, horizontal branches and tough, close-grained white wood.
From Trees Worth Knowing by Rogers, Julia Ellen
Cobalt is a semi-metal of a grey or steel colour, of a close-grained fracture, more difficult of fusion than copper, not easily calcined.
From Heads of Lectures on a Course of Experimental Philosophy: Particularly Including Chemistry by Priestley, Joseph
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