Grain (disambiguation)

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Grains are the seeds of arable crops or the crops bearing them.

Grain or grains may also refer to:

Material structures

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  • Grain (textile), the orientation of a woven textile used in a garment
  • Grain, a solid-fuel rocket's propellant charge; roughly a hollow cylinder, sometimes textured, and possibly very large
  • Crystallite or "grain" in metallurgy, a single crystal inside solid-state matter
  • Film grain, the gritty texture sometimes apparent on images produced using photographic film or paper (grainy)
  • Grain size (or particle size), for particles of rock in geology
  • Wood grain, the alignment and texture of the fibres in wood

Places

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Arts, entertainment, and media

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Other uses

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  • Grain (unit), a unit of mass equal to 64.79891 milligrams, 17,000 of an avoirdupois pound
  • Grain (cipher), a stream cipher designed for restricted hardware environments
  • Grain (surfboard company), a company that manufactures hollow wooden surfboards
  • Grain (company), a Series B Singaporean food-delivery startup
  • GRAIN, an international non-governmental organization for sustainable agriculture
  • Grain of salt, an idiom

See also

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