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<< The engineer who wrote the feature specs for an application I'm
documenting
used the word "granularity" in a sense I'm not familiar with. >>
I've never heard it used this way either. But I have to admit that I
don't write for network equipment. The easiest solution I can offer is
to talk to the engineer. Get him or her to thoroughly define the term as
used for this application.
