granulometry

English

Etymology

From granule +‎ -o- +‎ -metry.

Noun

granulometry (countable and uncountable, plural granulometries)

  1. (geology) The measurement of the sizes of mineral grains in sedimentary rock.
  2. (by extension) The measurement of the size distribution in granular material.
    • 2022 May 9, Eleni Tsangouri et al., “Reservoir-Vascular Tubes Network for Self-Healing Concrete: Performance Analysis by Acoustic Emission, Digital Image Correlation and Ultrasound Velocity”, in Applied Sciences‎[1], volume 12, number 10, →DOI, archived from the original on 18 April 2025:
      Recent studies demonstrate that encapsulation of the healing agent provides successive repair by reducing the capsules’ diameter to the material granulometry [2] and by casting them through materials compatible to concrete (i.e., [3]).

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