2. To raise in granules or small asperities; to make rough on the surface.
GRANULATE
Gran"u*late, v. i.
Defn: To collect or be formed into grains; as, cane juice granulates into sugar.
GRANULATE; GRANULATED
Gran"u*late, Gran"u*la`ted, a.
1. Consisting of, or resembling, grains; crystallized in grains; granular; as, granulated sugar.
2. Having numerous small elevations, as shagreen. Granulated steel, a variety of steel made by a particular process beginning with the granulation of pig iron.
GRANULATION
Gran`u*la"tion, n. Etym: [Cf. F. granulation.]
1. The act or process of forming or crystallizing into grains; as, the granulation of powder and sugar.
2. The state of being granulated.
3. (Med.) (a) One of the small, red, grainlike prominences which form on a raw surface (that of wounds or ulcers), and are the efficient agents in the process of healing. (b) The act or process of the formation of such prominences.