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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.
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- Real speech example
- The incredible chemistry powering your smartphone
It's the roughness of the two pieces that make them stick together.
- Definition summary
- The property of being rough, coarseness.
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How to pronounce roughness
The incredible chemistry powering your smartphone

It's the roughness of the two pieces that make them stick together.
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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