How To Use Fineness In A Sentence
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Rock salt is what the salt mined from underground is called, whether it is literally mined in solid form (a practice now rare) or pumped up to the surface and then evaporated, to be crystallized to the desired degree of fineness.
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Broadly speaking, the modular design is perhaps the most flexible, but it may sacrifice fineness of control for generality of purpose.
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All Britannia coins have a millesimal fineness of 916 gold.
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Chinese rugs are graded according to the fineness of their knotting.
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The birth type had significant effects on the degree of cashmere fineness, the body weight of Cashmere goat, the birth weight, the weaning weight and the daily weight gain.
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Still another variety, greyish-black and generally associated with hæmatite iron ore, is called emery, and, when ground in different degrees of fineness, is so well known by its general use as a polishing medium as to need no description.
The Chemistry, Properties and Tests of Precious Stones
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I wondered what they were thinking, then pondered on the fineness of the dividing line between exhilarating adventure and irresponsibility.
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It is also a well-established truth, that the larger the frame of the animal, the coarser is the meat, and that small bones are both guarantees for the fineness of the breed and the delicacy of the flesh.
The Book of Household Management
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The fineness of a cocoa powder affects both the flavor development and the mouthfeel of the finished product.
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Hair texture is measured by the degree of fineness or coarseness of your hair, which varies according to the diameter of each individual hair.
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His dress suited his pretensions -- the soft rich broadcloth which tailors called doeskin, and linen of a fineness rare outside the eastern cities.
The Path of the King
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But our writers have been able partially to vindicate poets by pointing out that Dante was able to travel the whole way toward absolute beauty, and to sublimate his perceptions to supersensual fineness without losing their poetic tone.
The Poet's Poet : essays on the character and mission of the poet as interpreted in English verse of the last one hundred and fifty years
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The "roughed" tool is then used to gradually improve the fineness of grinding of the glass.
On Laboratory Arts
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For example, 24-karat gold has a millesimal fineness of 999 and 14-karat gold has a millesimal fineness of 585.
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To be plaine, I am voyde of al judgement, if your nine Com{oe}dies, whereunto, in imitation of Herodotus, you give the names of the Nine Muses, and (in one man's fansie not unworthily), come not neerer Ariostoes Com{oe}dies, eyther for the finenesse of plausible elocution, or the rareness of poetical invention, than that Elvish queene doth to his Orlando Furioso, which notwithstanding, you will needes seem to emulate, and hope to overgo, as you flatly professed yourself in one of your last letters.
A Biography of Edmund Spenser
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In some oviparous quadrupeds, namely in lizards, the tongue is bifid, as also it is in serpents, and its terminal divisions are of hair-like fineness, as has already been described.
On the Parts of Animals
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The fineness of the mesh makes them completely watertight.
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The fineness of the gold, and chargeful fashion, 32
Act IV. Scene I. The Comedy of Errors
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The purity of a millesimal fineness, such as 0.995 being very pure.
Zach Klein Universal Feed
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Now, I know it's the done thing to give your children a little of what you're having, in order to accustom their palates to fineness and adventure and all that rubbish.
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the fineness of the sand on the beach
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And little could she comfort herself with the thought that it was not his real self, for she remembered his gentleness and considerateness, all his finenesses of the past.
CHAPTER XII
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Oh, no one will take fineness from a morning," says Clara.
CONFESSIONS OF AN UGLY STEPSISTER
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Yet now, resolutely, as only a man can do who is capable of martyring himself for the cause of science, he proceeded to violate all the fineness and delicacy of his nature by making love to the unthinkably disgusting bushwoman.
THE RED ONE
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But certainly the arrival of the spirit represented by Kipling, added to the discipline of his own early adventures, braced him and energised him; and almost his first literary effort took the form of ballad poems uniting a fineness and sweetness which were entirely his own with a kind of lusty vigour which was superimposed.
Personality in Literature
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After the land is manured and plowed it should be gone over in all directions with a disk and smoothing harrow, until it is of a dustlike fineness.
Three Acres and Liberty
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I was lately consulted with respect to the treatment of a pyritic ore in a very promising mine, but could not recommend the above treatment, because though the pyrites in the gangue was similar, the bulk of the lode consisted of silica, consequently there would be a great waste of power in triturating the whole of the stuff to what, with regard to much of it, would be an unnecessary degree of fineness.
Getting Gold: a practical treatise for prospectors, miners and students
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The purity is known as its fineness and is measured in millesimals.
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Had I not been concentrating on other things, I too would have been rendered senseless by the fineness of the food.
THE CALLIGRAPHER
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The millesimal fineness is usually rounded to a three figure number, particularly where used as a hallmark.
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And Mr. Hollinghurst does all this while preserving a truly Jamesian fineness of perception, his own consciousness darting around those of his characters, recording every desire and hesitation and misunderstanding.
The (Private) Lives of the Poets
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The purity or fineness of silver alloys is now described using the millesimal system in most countries.
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The foundryman can control the fineness of dendrite structure by controlling the rate of solidification.
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At the end of the scutching line, the cooperative uses five criteria to measure quality: oiliness, color, strength, fineness and homogeneity.
The Muddy Roots of Fine Linen
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The meaning, then, of the Hebrew word rendered firmament is so utterly removed from the notion of compactness, or solidity, or metallic or crystalline spheres, that it is derived from the very opposite; the fineness or tenuity produced by processes of expansion.
Fables of Infidelity and Facts of Faith Being an Examination of the Evidences of Infidelity
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What we call creativeness, even in the greatest artists, is but a fineness of sensibility and cognition, or rather recognition, coupled with the power to express what they see and feel in nature.
Shakespeare's Lost Years in London, 1586-1592
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The word denotes Egyptian linen of peculiar whiteness and fineness (byssus).
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The mere charm of seeing such an idea constituent, in its degree; the fineness of the measures taken — a real extension, if successful, of the very terms and possibilities of representation and figuration — such things alone were, after this fashion, inspiring, such things alone were a gage of the probable success of that dissimulated calculation with which the whole effort was to square.
The Ambassadors
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An artist can transfer the acacia to canvas in a series of green and white dots and blurs, but he does not achieve all the beauty, for beneath the tree's arborescence is the fineness of an etching.
The Spring of Joy: A Little Book of Healing
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Its business is the intensification of life, to bring home to us its myriad finenesses; it achieves this end by presenting persons passing through the intense experiences which we call passions; and these are conditions of the spirit in which an idealised object encourages, thwarts, or tantalises the seeker, and dejects him utterly if the reality turns out to be less than the ideal.
Personality in Literature
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Model (7) was fit to estimate wool fineness, wool bend score, wool density score and wool oil score.
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Designer Ashleigh Verrier said her favorite fashion word was "diaphanous" -- an adjective characterizing fineness of texture.
Breaking News - The Post Chronicle
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Spinning frames draw these slubbing or condensing out to the required fineness of yarn and insert twist to form the yarn.
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Agate is a microcrystalline quartz ( silica ) , characterised by its fineness of grain and brightness of color.
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He was walking that day head down, abstracted in his notecards, noticing neither the fineness of the weather, the unevenness of the pavement, or the breeze riffling the surface of the river beneath the bridge.
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Yet now, resolutely, as only a man can do who is capable of martyring himself for the cause of science, he proceeded to violate all the fineness and delicacy of his nature by making love to the unthinkably disgusting bushwoman.
THE RED ONE
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This question of _superfineness_ versus _refinement_ (which ought to mean the power of refining things through our feeling) has carried me away from the original theme of my discourse, which, under the symbol of the hotel room, was merely that we should _perhaps appreciate more if we were offered less to appreciate_.
Hortus Vitae Essays on the Gardening of Life
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The Corinthian order appears here complete with its modillion cornice, but the crispness of the detail and the fineness of the execution are Greek and not Roman.
A Text-Book of the History of Architecture Seventh Edition, revised
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This black powder, called kohl, is usually made from antimony ground to an extreme fineness.
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Lucy's eyes, moreover, were riveted on her face, on its colour, its fineness of feature, its brilliance and piercingness of expression.
The History of David Grieve
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The pretext for socialization of minting - one which has curiously been accepted by almost every economist - is that private minters would defraud the public on the weight and fineness of the coins.
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This corresponds to the fineness of face powder or an average particle size of about $ 0 microns.
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When she reached back to feel it, however, it felt thicker than she remembered, for she had always lamented the fineness of her hair. ‘Uh huh.’
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There is a possibility that alkalinity of ash is related to fiber fineness.
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In the reign of Henry VIII. the shipwrights of this country began to build ships which combined something of the strength, and capacity of the dromond, with the length and fineness of the galley.
On the Spanish Main Or, Some English forays on the Isthmus of Darien.
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The fineness of the fibers, spun with a high degree of twist, gives the yarn a springy resilience.
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Beauty lies in harmony, not in contrast; and harmony is refinement; therefore, there must be a fineness of the [Page 222] senses if we are to appreciate harmony.
The Montessori Method
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It's the fineness of the thread that makes the cloth so soft.
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The batter is quite a bit thinner than that of pancakes, and the trick is to use its fineness to the finished crepe's advantage.
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And if reputation and reward shall attend these conquests, which depend mostly on the fineness and niceties of words, it is no wonder if the wit of man so employed, should perplex, involve, and subtilize the signification of sounds, so as never to want something to say in opposing or defending any question; the victory being adjudged not to him who had truth on his side, but the last word in the dispute.
An Essay Concerning Human Understanding
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The fineness and softness of the dress caught her attention.
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He received the wool in huge bales and then graded it according to length and fineness, before despatching it to the cloth-maker or dealer.
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He received the wool in huge bales and then graded it according to length and fineness, before despatching it to the cloth-maker or dealer.
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And again I marveled at the marble smoothness and fineness of her skin on which the caressing water left tiny silvery globules, gemming it.
The Metal Monster
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The latter breed (black and tan, with hair almost approaching to silk in fineness, such as Vandyke loved to introduce into his portraits) were solely in the possession of the late Duke of Norfolk.
Heads and Tales : or, Anecdotes and Stories of Quadrupeds and Other Beasts, Chiefly Connected with Incidents in the Histories of More or Less Distinguished Men.
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As we walked by I saw Yrling's and Toki's war-kits, for they were easy to discern by the fineness of the helmets and the gilt upon the bosses of their shields.
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This corresponds to the fineness of face powder or an average particle size of about $ 0 microns.
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The fragility of crystal is not a weakness but a fineness.
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the fineness of her features
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The war is fine, _fine_, FINE, though I don't get near the fineness except in the pages of _Punch_.
Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 156, April 16, 1919
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The carat system is increasingly being complemented or superseded by the millesimal fineness system in which the purity of precious metals is denoted by parts per thousand of pure metal in the alloy.
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Model (7) was fit to estimate wool fineness, wool bend score, wool density score and wool oil score.
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Gold's purity is expressed either as fineness or in karats.
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he marvelled at the fineness of her hair
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The fineness of every aspect of the Chettinadu style of construction, including the interiors of houses, was detailed in the portraits.
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The fineness of the new type, as has been suggested, called for a smaller size of book, which was also favored by considerations of economy and convenience; and so Aldus made up his sheets in a form which the fold compels us to call octavo, but which to-day would be called sixteenmo.
The Booklover and His Books
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What Joffrey observers often admire most now is the beauty and fineness of the women's pointe work, so essential for dancing Balanchine.
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He also needs to know the fineness, because coarse particles don't work.
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Chinese rugs are graded according to the fineness of their knotting.
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You can't suppose a naked soul moving about without a bodily garment -- no creed teaches that; and if its new clothing be of like substance to ours, only of ethereal fineness, -- a more delicate recrystallization about the eternal spiritual nucleus, -- must it not then possess powers as much more delicate and refined as is the new material in which it is reclad? ''
The Autobiography of a Quack
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So it was, exercising faculties that were no longer necessary, but that were still alive in him and clamorous for exercise, he followed the long-since passed wood-rat with all the soft-footed crouching craft of the meat-pursuer and with utmost fineness of reading the scent.
CHAPTER XXIII
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the inn is distinguished by the fineness of its cuisine
