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coarse texture [3 records]

Record 1 2019-03-25

English

Subject field(s)
  • Xylology (The Study of Wood)
CONT

Grain is often used in reference to the relative sizes and distributions of cells, as in fine grain and coarse grain ... Texture is another word used to describe a macroscopic summary of the relative sizes of cells in wood. Fine-textured woods have uniform structure with typically small cells. Coarse-textured woods generally have structure with concentrations of large diameter cells ...

French

Domaine(s)
  • Xylologie (Étude des bois)
CONT

À grain grossier : bois, tels que le chêne ou l'acajou, caractérisés par des pores ouverts et marqués qui doivent être bouchés afin d'obtenir une finition lisse.

Spanish

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Record 2 1985-12-20

English

Subject field(s)
  • Cheese and Dairy Products

French

Domaine(s)
  • Laiterie, beurrerie et fromagerie
OBS

Equivalent adopté par le Comité intergouvernemental de terminologie de l'industrie laitière.

Spanish

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Record 3 1980-06-05

English

Subject field(s)
  • Soil Science
OBS

The texture exhibited by sands, loamy sands, and sandy loams except very fine sandy loam. A soil containing large quantities of these textural classes.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Science du sol
OBS

Texture des sables, des sables loameux et des loams sableux, à l'exception des loams sableux très fins. Sol contenant de grandes quantités de matériaux de ces classes texturales.

Spanish

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