metric grain

Questions about metric grain

What is another word for metric grain?

It depends which metric grain you mean. In the sense “a weight unit used for pearls or diamonds: 50 mg or 1/4 carat”, the synonyms are grain. Across all 1 sense there are 1 distinct synonyms, and they are not interchangeable with each other — this page lists them under the sense each one belongs to.

What is the opposite of metric grain?

WordNet records no antonym for metric grain. Antonymy in WordNet is a relation between specific word forms rather than between concepts, so it is recorded only where lexicographers judged the pairing direct. An absence here means none was recorded, not that none can be imagined.

Where do the synonyms for metric grain come from?

From Princeton University's WordNet, a lexical database maintained by lexicographers since 1985. A synonym here means a word form that shares a synset with this word — a set of forms interchangeable in one recorded context. Nothing on this page is generated by a language model.

Other views of metric grain

• Full entry for metric grainAll 1 sense, with examples, usage labels, syllables and pronunciation.
• Rhymes for metric grainWhether this word can be rhymed at all — it is not in the pronouncing dictionary.
• Thesaurus homeHow WordNet synsets work, and the collections built for synonym work.