Grains are the seeds of arable crops or the crops bearing them.

Grain or grains may also refer to:

Material structures

  • Grain (textile), the orientation of a woven textile used in a garment
  • Grain, a solid-fuel rocket's propellant charge; roughly a hollow cylinder, sometimes textured, and possibly very large
  • Crystallite or "grain" in metallurgy, a single crystal inside solid-state matter
  • Film grain, the gritty texture sometimes apparent on images produced using photographic film or paper (grainy)
  • Grain size (or particle size), for particles of rock in geology
  • Paper grain, the texture and structure of paper
  • Wood grain, the alignment and texture of the fibres in wood

Places

  • Isle of Grain in Kent, England
  • Grain Power Station, a power station on the Isle of Grain
  • Grain Valley, Missouri, a city in the US

Arts, entertainment, and media

  • Grain (film), 2015 European film by Semih Kaplanoğlu
  • Grain (magazine), a Canadian literary magazine
  • Grains (Boozoo Bajou album), 2009 album
  • "The Grain", an 1886 short story by Leo Tolstoy

Other uses

  • Grain (unit), a unit of mass equal to 64.79891 milligrams, of an avoirdupois pound
  • Grains per gallon, a unit of water hardness
  • Grain (cipher), a stream cipher designed for restricted hardware environments
  • Grain 128a, successor of Grain cipher
  • Grain (surfboard company), a company that manufactures hollow wooden surfboards
  • Grain (company), a Series B Singaporean food-delivery startup
  • GRAIN, an international non-governmental organization for sustainable agriculture
  • Grain of salt, an idiom

See also

  • Granule (disambiguation)
  • Peter Grain (disambiguation)