Granular
Etymology
From Latin “granulum,” a little grain, the diminutive of “granum,” grain or seed. Literally, made of small grains. The modern figurative use — granular data, a granular breakdown — treats detail as a grain size: the finer the grain, the more you can see.
adjective · /GRAN-yuh-ler/
Considered or presented at the level of fine, individual detail.
What it names
Resolution — how finely a thing is broken down, from a coarse summary to a detail-by-detail view.
Example
The dashboard lets you drill from national totals down to granular figures for a single store on a single day.
Related idea
A granular account is fine-grained detail; a cursory one is a fast skim. Granularity is about resolution, not speed — you can be slow and still coarse.
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