"roughness" meaning in English

See roughness in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

IPA: /ˈɹʌf.nəs/ [Canada, General-American, Received-Pronunciation, Scotland], /ˈɹʌf.nʌs/ [Canada, General-American, Received-Pronunciation, Scotland, Scotland, also], /ˈɹɐf.nəs/ [General-Australian, New-Zealand], /ˈɾəf.nes/ [India] Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vininn126-roughness.wav Forms: roughnesses [plural]
enPR: rŭf′nəs Etymology: Inherited from Middle English roughnes /roughnesse. By surface analysis, rough + -ness. Compare Old English hrēohnes (“roughness”). Etymology templates: {{yesno||i|I}} I, {{glossary|Inherited}} Inherited, {{inh|en|enm|roughnes//roughnesse|||g=|g2=|g3=|id=|lit=|nocat=|pos=|sc=|sort=|tr=|ts=}} Middle English roughnes /roughnesse, {{inh+|en|enm|roughnes//roughnesse}} Inherited from Middle English roughnes /roughnesse, {{surf|en|rough|-ness}} By surface analysis, rough + -ness, {{ncog|ang|hrēohnes||roughness}} Old English hrēohnes (“roughness”) Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} roughness (countable and uncountable, plural roughnesses)
  1. The property of being rough, coarseness. Tags: countable, uncountable Translations (the property of being rough): τραχύτης (trakhútēs) [feminine] (Ancient Greek), ragkot (Bikol Central), грапавост (grapavost) [feminine] (Bulgarian), грапавина (grapavina) (Bulgarian), неравност (neravnost) [feminine] (Bulgarian), aspredat [feminine] (Catalan), aspresa [feminine] (Catalan), aspror [feminine] (Catalan), hrubost [feminine] (Czech), ruwheid (Dutch), maltrankvileco (Esperanto), Rauheit [feminine] (German), Grobheit [feminine] (German), रूखापन (rūkhāpan) [masculine] (Hindi), asperitās [feminine] (Latin), raupjums [masculine] (Latvian), negludums [masculine] (Latvian), rupjums (Latvian), rupjība [feminine] (Latvian), بیاغیلق (bayağılık) (note: of manners or language) (Ottoman Turkish), chropowatość [feminine] (Polish), asprime [feminine] (Romanian), asperitate (Romanian), шерохова́тость (šeroxovátostʹ) [feminine] (Russian), aspereza [feminine] (Spanish)
    Sense id: en-roughness-en-noun-en:coarseness Disambiguation of 'the property of being rough': 75 13 5 0 8
  2. Something that is rough; a rough spot. Tags: countable, uncountable
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  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
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  5. (countable, engineering) A measure of how rough something is, such as a surface Tags: countable
    Sense id: en-roughness-en-noun-NptwCZBG Categories (other): Engineering 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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      "sense": "the property of being rough",
      "tags": [
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      "word": "hrubost"
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      "sense": "the property of being rough",
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      "sense": "the property of being rough",
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      "sense": "the property of being rough",
      "tags": [
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      "roman": "trakhútēs",
      "sense": "the property of being rough",
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      "code": "hi",
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      "roman": "rūkhāpan",
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      "word": "रूखापन"
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      "code": "la",
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      "sense": "the property of being rough",
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      "word": "asperitās"
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      "code": "lv",
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      "sense": "the property of being rough",
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      "sense": "the property of being rough",
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      "word": "negludums"
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      "sense": "the property of being rough",
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      "sense": "the property of being rough",
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      "code": "ota",
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      "word": "بیاغیلق"
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