Roughness may refer to: *

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 * Roughness length, roughness as applied in meteorology * International Roughness Index, the roughness of a road * Hydraulic roughness, the roughness of land and waterway features *

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 * Roughness/resel, the resel/roughness of an image/volume * Unnecessary roughness, a type of foul in gridiron football

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