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# roughness

«roughness» in Mova's school dictionary: **how uneven or harsh its surface feels, the opposite of…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (roughness; no plural)

### meaning for a pupil

The roughness of something is how uneven or harsh its surface feels, the opposite of smoothness. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/roughness/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

in tales, a test by touch: someone feels a cloth to see if there is any rough place; in lessons it names a quality you can feel

### examples

- She ran her hand over the cloth and found no roughness. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/roughness/#x1)
- The roughness of the bark scratched my hand. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/roughness/#x2)
- Sand paper has more roughness than silk. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/roughness/#x3)

### note

nothing for maths

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «roughness» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/roughness/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.