Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Granulate \Gran"u*late\, Granulated \Gran"u*la`ted\, a.
   1. Consisting of, or resembling, grains; crystallized in
      grains; granular; as, granulated sugar.

   2. Having numerous small elevations, as shagreen.

   {Granulated steel}, a variety of steel made by a particular
      process beginning with the granulation of pig iron.