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finer

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finer [′fīn·ər]
(mathematics)
A partitionPof a set is finer than another partitionQof the same set if each member ofPis a subset of a member ofQ.


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IN the evening I started, and drove out to sea before a gentle wind from the southwest, slowly, steadily; and the island grew smaller and smaller, and the lank spire of smoke dwindled to a finer and finer line against the hot sunset.
The Partridges declared that they would dig around his vines and make them produce finer grapes.
The sealing-wax had gone, and she had become quite black; but black makes one look very slim, and so she thought she was even finer than before.
 
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