grit

Meaning

1. A collection of hard small materials, such as dirt, ground stone, debris from sandblasting or other such grinding, or swarf from metalworking.
2. A collection of hard small materials, such as dirt, ground stone, debris from sandblasting or other such grinding, or swarf from metalworking.
3. Small, hard, inedible particles in food.
4. A measure of the relative coarseness of an abrasive material such as sandpaper, the smaller the number the coarser the abrasive.
5. A hard, coarse-grained siliceous sandstone; gritstone. Also, a finer sharp-grained sandstone, e.g., grindstone grit.
6. Strength of mind; great courage or fearlessness; fortitude.

gravel

coarse sand

particle size

spunk

fine gravel

grain size

crack

grinding powder

mesh size

small particles

sandgravel

hard sludge

grain fineness

fineness number

grain of sand

Frequency

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ɡɹɪt/

With early modern vowel shortening, from Middle English grete, griet, from Old English grēot, from Proto-West Germanic *greut, from Proto-Germanic *greutą.

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