Roughness may refer to:
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Surface roughness
Surface roughness, often shortened to roughness, is a component of surface finish (surface texture). It is quantified by the deviations in the direction of the normal vector of a real surface from its ideal form. If these deviations are large, ...
, the roughness of a surface
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Roughness length, roughness as applied in meteorology
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International Roughness Index, the roughness of a road
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Hydraulic roughness, the roughness of land and waterway features
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Roughness (psychophysics)
Roughness is studied by examining how textures are perceived and encoded by an individual's somatosensory system. In an experiment to measure and compare the roughness of different sounds, listeners are presented with different sounds and asked to ...
in psychoacoustics refers to the level of dissonance
*The 'roughness' of a line or surface, measured numerically by the
Hausdorff dimension
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Roughness/resel, the resel/roughness of an image/volume
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Unnecessary roughness, a type of foul in gridiron football
See also
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Surface finish
Surface finish, also known as surface texture or surface topography, is the nature of a surface as defined by the three characteristics of lay, surface roughness, and waviness.. It comprises the small, local deviations of a surface from the perf ...
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