What does roughness mean?
Roughness means The property of being rough, coarseness..
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/ˈɹʌf.nəs/ · noun
The property of being rough, coarseness..
The roughness of the road made me wonder if my car would fall apart.
A variety of suitable methods for surface inspection are available to detect topographical defects induced by surface roughnesses such as scratches, digs, inclusions and spatters.
With this latter implement, the corn stalk fodder, shucks, oats, hay and other "roughness" may be finely cut up[…]
The surface roughness was low.
Use roughness when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Roughness means The property of being rough, coarseness..
Common synonyms include indentation, crudeness, harshness, pitting.
Possible antonyms include smoothness.
The roughness of the road made me wonder if my car would fall apart.
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