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How to pronounce “roughness”
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Pronunciation guide for roughness
- Learning goal
- Practice the English pronunciation of roughness with real speech in context.
- Available examples
- 8 YouTube examples
- Real speech example
- Benoit Mandelbrot: Fractals and the art of roughness 21 minutes
Roughness is part of human life
- Definition summary
- The property of being rough, coarseness.
Example 1 of 8
How to pronounce roughness
Benoit Mandelbrot: Fractals and the art of roughness 21 minutes

Roughness is part of human life
Example Sentences
A Deep Dive Into “roughness”
Meaning
- [Noun]
- The property of being rough, coarseness.
- Something that is rough; a rough spot.
- (US) Roughage; coarse fodder.
- (Scotland) Abundance, especially of food.
- (countable, engineering) A measure of how rough something is, such as a surface
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