Glossary

Deutsch: Korn / Español: Grano / Português: Grão / Français: Grain / Italiano: Grano /

The term grain may refer to the following:

• any type of small, coarse, granular particle (e.g. sand, salt, seeds)
• a term for any form of solid propellant charge
• a term for the orientation of weft and warp threads in a woven textile
• a non-metric unit of measurement of mass, approximately equivalent to 64.79891 milligrams, commonly used for measuring bullets, propellants and gunpowder
• a very short part of a musical sample, ranging from about 1-50 milliseconds in length, layered and played back in an unconventional manner in a method of sound synthesis known as granular synthesis
• Crystallite (or grain), a microscopic to small crystal formed during the cooling of a material that make up most inorganic solids
• Food grains, any small, hard fruit or seed of an arable crop, or a crop that bears such fruits or seeds
• Wood grain, a pattern resulting from the longtitudinal arrangement of wood fibers
• Film grain, a random, gritty optical texture sometimes present on images produced using photographic film or paper that may also be used for artistic effect
• Grain size (or particle size), a term referring to the diameter of individual particles or grains of granular materials
• a stream cipher primarily designed for restricted hardware environments that was submitted to the EU ECRYPT network's eSTREAM project in 2004
• an American company that specializes in manufacturing original and custom-designed hollow wooden surfboards
• GRAIN (Genetic Resources Action International, initially International Coalition for Development Action or ICDA), a non-profit, non-government organization for sustainable agriculture and related matters
• Isle of Grain, an isle with a village of the same name in the county of Kent in England
• a quarterly Canadian literary magazine
• an upcoming German/Turkish/French science fiction film

List of books: Grain