Associations to the word «Roughness»

ROUGHNESS, noun. The property of being rough, coarseness.

ROUGHNESS LENGTH, noun. A parameter of some vertical wind profile equations that model the horizontal mean wind speed near the ground; in the log wind profile, it is equivalent to the height at which the wind speed theoretically becomes zero.

ROUGHNESS, noun. A texture of a surface or edge that is not smooth but is irregular and uneven.

ROUGHNESS, noun. The quality of being unpleasant (harsh or rough or grating) to the senses.

ROUGHNESS, noun. An unpolished unrefined quality; "the crudeness of frontier dwellings depressed her".

ROUGHNESS, noun. Used of the sea during inclement or stormy weather.

ROUGHNESS, noun. Rowdy behavior.

ROUGHNESS, noun. The formation of small pits in a surface as a consequence of corrosion.

ROUGHNESS, noun. Harsh or severe speech or behavior; "men associate the roughness of nonstandard working-class speech with masculinity"; "the roughness of her voice was a signal to keep quiet".