"roughness" meaning in English

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Noun

Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vininn126-roughness.wav [US] Forms: roughnesses [plural]
Etymology: From Middle English roughnes, roughnesse, equivalent to rough + -ness. Compare Old English hrēohnes (“roughtness”). Etymology templates: {{inh|en|enm|roughnes}} Middle English roughnes, {{m|enm|roughnesse}} roughnesse, {{suf|en|rough|ness}} rough + -ness, {{ncog|ang|hrēohnes|t=roughtness}} Old English hrēohnes (“roughtness”) Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} roughness (countable and uncountable, plural roughnesses)
  1. The property of being rough, coarseness. Tags: countable, uncountable Translations (property of being rough): τραχύτης (trakhútēs) [feminine] (Ancient Greek), ragkot (Bikol Central), грапавост (grapavost) [feminine] (Bulgarian), неравност (neravnost) [feminine] (Bulgarian), hrubost [feminine] (Czech), maltrankvileco (Esperanto), Rauheit [feminine] (German), Grobheit [feminine] (German), asperitās [feminine] (Latin), raupjums [masculine] (Latvian), negludums [masculine] (Latvian), rupjums (Latvian), rupjība [feminine] (Latvian), asprime [feminine] (Romanian), asperitate (Romanian), шерохова́тость (šeroxovátostʹ) [feminine] (Russian), aspereza [feminine] (Spanish)
    Sense id: en-roughness-en-noun-EqRaq1P~ Disambiguation of 'property of being rough': 70 15 5 0 9
  2. Something that is rough; a rough spot. Tags: countable, uncountable
    Sense id: en-roughness-en-noun-lOCi-a6G
  3. (US) Roughage; coarse fodder. Tags: US, countable, uncountable
    Sense id: en-roughness-en-noun-AGP9gbdp Categories (other): American English
  4. (Scotland) Abundance, especially of food. Tags: Scotland, countable, uncountable
    Sense id: en-roughness-en-noun-HppPneQT Categories (other): Scottish English, English entries with incorrect language header, English terms suffixed with -ness Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 1 1 33 47 18 Disambiguation of English terms suffixed with -ness: 2 2 37 47 12
  5. (countable, engineering) A measure of how rough something is, such as a surface Tags: countable Categories (topical): Engineering
    Sense id: en-roughness-en-noun-NptwCZBG Topics: engineering, natural-sciences, physical-sciences
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: macroroughness, microroughness, nanoroughness, roughness length

Inflected forms

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