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grating

• (s) unpleasantly harsh or grating in sound
  • a gravelly voice
  rasping, raspy, gravelly, scratchy, rough,

Nouns

• (n) a barrier that has parallel or crossed bars blocking a passage but admitting air grate,
• (n) a frame of iron bars to hold a fire grate,
• (n) optical device consisting of a surface with many parallel grooves in it; disperses a beam of light (or other electromagnetic radiation) into its wavelengths to produce its spectrum diffraction grating,

Synonyms

grate rasping raspy gravelly scratchy rough diffraction grating

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