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fineness

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fineness [′fīn·nəs]
(mathematics)
For a partition of a metric space, the least upper bound on distances between points in the same member of the partition.
For a partition of an interval into subintervals, the length of the longest subinterval. Also known as mesh; norm.
(metallurgy)
Degree of purity of gold or silver in parts per thousand.
fineness
1. A measure of particle-size distribution.
2. In paints, a measure of the size of pigment particles.
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The rest of my cattle I got safe ashore, and set them a-grazing in a bowling-green at Greenwich, where the fineness of the grass made them feed very heartily, though I had always feared the contrary:
Gulliver's Travels by Swift, Jonathan View in context
To penalize a yacht in proportion to the fineness of her performance is unfair to the craft and to her men.
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It was just for this fineness of perception, for this delicacy, that Darya Alexandrovna liked Levin.
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