granulate
VerbSynonyms:
grain
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Webster's Dictionary (1913)
gran′u·late (grăn′ū-lāt), transitive verb [past tense & past participle Granulated (grăn′ū-lā′tĕd); present participle & verbal noun Granulating (grăn′ū-lā′tĭng).]
Origin: See Granule.
1. To form into grains or small masses; as, to granulate powder, sugar, or metal.
2. To raise in granules or small asperities; to make rough on the surface.
Gran′u·late intransitive verb
To collect or be formed into grains; as, cane juice granulates into sugar.
Gran′u·late, Gran′u·la′ted adjective
1. Consisting of, or resembling, grains; crystallized in grains; granular; as, granulated sugar.
2. Having numerous small elevations, as shagreen.
Granulated steel, a variety of steel made by a particular process beginning with the granulation of pig iron.
Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), from GCIDE 0.54