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width

width

93 1.0
Distance across something from one side to the other
  • noun
  • /wɪdθ/
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  • And furthermore, they have varied the width of that bar.
  • length and width
  • height and width
  • path width

And I would triple down on the depth, not the width.

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Examples

  • Your average American businessman looks at a product, a marketing scheme, what have you and he sees the length and width of it.

  • This is the width of the largest subinterval.

  • Length times width, Length times width, length times width.

  • This area would be equal to width times length.

  • The bands are about pretty much about the same width, I would say.

  • It's kind of like the same thing of length times width equals area.

  • In this case would depend on the width of the tank.

  • Have you ever seen the width of the paws of a polar bear?

  • When you're a child, you learn there are three dimensions - height, width, and depth.

  • To find the area of a rectangle, multiply the length by the width.

Synonyms

breadth
vswidth
16 3.9

The distance from one side of something to the other

is the standard measurement term rather than a general quality
broadness
vswidth
1 2.5

Great width of a place like a road or river

focuses on concrete numeric distance across an object rather than general state

Antonyms

1 3.4

Little space from one side to the other making it hard to pass

Compounds

constant-width font
  • Specialized
3.4

A style of text where every letter takes the same amount of space

fixed-width font
  • Specialized
3.8

A style where every letter has the same width, like in typewriters

line width
  • Specialized
3.3

The horizontal space of a line of text that shows how many words fit

line width
  • Specialized
7.3

The range of frequencies a spectral line covers

The thickness of a drawn or printed line

How Wide

breadth
16 3.9
width
93 1.0
narrowness
1 3.4

Surface Forms

width singular
widths plural

Morphology

width = wide (transparent) = wide + th

The noun is a regular derivation from the adjective 'wide' using the productive suffix '-th' to form an abstract measurement noun; the small spelling alternation (wide → width) does not obscure the meaning.

Etymology

The word width comes from the old English word wide, meaning 'broad', plus the ending -th that turns an adjective into a noun. So, width is the 'measure of how wide' something is.