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verb

granulate v. t. (past & past part. granulated; pres. part. granulating)

To form into grains or small masses; as, to granulate powder, sugar, or metal.

To raise in granules or small asperities; to make rough on the surface.

Granulate v. i. To collect or be formed into grains; as, cane juice granulates into sugar.

adjective

Granulated, Granulate adj.

Consisting of, or resembling, grains; crystallized in grains; granular; as, granulated sugar.

Having numerous small elevations, as shagreen.

Granulated steel, a variety of steel made by a particular process beginning with the granulation of pig iron.

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Etymology of 'Granulate'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Granulate" Quotes from Famous Books

... consistency of thick gruel by the formation of minute crystals, and are then allowed to descend into an heater, where they are kept warm till they can be run into "forms" or tanks, where they are allowed to granulate. The liquid, or molasses, which remains after the first crystallization is returned to the vacuum pan and reboiled, and this reboiling of the drainings is repeated two or three times, with a gradually decreasing result in the quality ...

— The Hawaiian Archipelago • Isabella L. Bird

... add an additional quantity. When the pan is full, the contents have thickened into the consistency of thick gruel by the formation of minute crystals, and are then allowed to descend into an heater, where they are kept warm till they can be run into "forms" or tanks, where they are allowed to granulate. The liquid, or molasses, which remains after the first crystallization is returned to the vacuum pan and reboiled, and this reboiling of the drainings is repeated two or three times, with a gradually decreasing result in the quality and ...

— The Hawaiian Archipelago • Isabella L. Bird

... pretty well boiled down, the drops begin to fall clear and ropy from the ladle; and if you see little bright grainy-looking bubbles in it, drop some on a cold plate, and continue to stir or rub it till it is quite cold: if it is ready to granulate, you will find it gritty, and turn whitish or pale straw colour; and stiff. The sugar may then safely be poured off into a tin dish, pail, basin, or any other utensil. I tried two different methods after taking the sugar from the fire, but could find little difference ...

— The Backwoods of Canada • Catharine Parr Traill

... that the granulate heaps and the transparent gelatinous matter in which they are embedded represent masses of protoplasm. Take away the cysts which characterize the Radiolaria, and a dead Sphaerozoum would very nearly represent ...

— Thomas Henry Huxley - A Character Sketch • Leonard Huxley