finegrained

English translation: detailed

17:50 May 15, 2011
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English term or phrase: finegrained
If all crimes are subject to underreporting and provide only a “crude approximation”
of the actual amount of criminality (Simpson, 1986: 863), it becomes difficult to make finegrained
distinctions about the number or severity
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A fine-grained description of a system is a detailed, low-level model of it

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detailed


Explanation:
A fine-grained description of a system is a detailed, low-level model of it

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fine-grained


Explanation:
This is not one word, but two. Furthermore, used as an adjective in this sense it is hyphenated when preceding the object (fine-grained XXXXX).
Fine grain is sometimes used to describe the fineness of wood grain, its closeness and detail, for example.
It is also used to describe less coarseness in a photographic image, especially as a photo is enlarged.
In your example, it seems to borrow from these definitions to describe exacting details and in-depth investigations. Your author is thus evidently writing about the difficulties encountered in making exacting and detailed distinctions, not definitions,
between the totals of different crimes and between their severities as a result of their being underreported.

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Saludos!
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My pleasure, ahmadahmad:
Hope it helps you.
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