Usually means: Process of grains growing larger.
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  1. coarsening: Merriam-Webster
  2. coarsening: Collins English Dictionary
  3. coarsening: Vocabulary.com
  4. coarsening: Wordnik
  5. coarsening: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. coarsening: Wiktionary
  7. coarsening: Dictionary.com
  8. coarsening: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. coarsening: Legal dictionary

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  1. coarsening: Dictionary of Algorithms and Data Structures

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noun:  The process or the result of becoming coarse

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