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)