Editing Granularity (section)

==Precision and ambiguity==
'''Coarse-grained''' materials or systems have fewer, larger discrete components than '''fine-grained''' materials or systems.
* A '''coarse-grained''' description of a system regards large subcomponents.
* A '''fine-grained''' description regards smaller components of which the larger ones are composed.

The concepts '''granularity''', '''coarseness''', and '''fineness''' are relative; and are used when comparing systems or descriptions of systems. An example of increasingly fine granularity: a list of nations in the [[United Nations]], a list of all states/provinces in those nations, a list of all cities in those states, etc.