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graininess
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graininess [′grān·ē·nəs]
(graphic arts)
A mottled effect in film caused by clumping of the silver particles.


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The grainy, greenish images showed four officers beating a motorist named Rodney King -- and soon seared their way into public consciousness.
Did you guess hearts grow pitiless or monstrous in such grainy, uncanny mineshafts as this?
Security personnel may forget to change the video tape once it stops recording, or the tape may have been used so frequently that it provides a grainy, unrecognizable image.
 
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