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FULL-LENGTH
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Complete
Example:
the full-length play
Synonyms:
full-length; uncut
Classified under:
Similar:
unabridged ((used of texts) not shortened)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Representing or accommodating the entire length
Example:
a full-length portrait
Classified under:
Similar:
whole (including all components without exception; being one unit or constituting the full amount or extent or duration; complete)
Context examples:
That was comfortable and elegant, and all my suspicions rose into a fierce bitter flame when I saw that on the mantelpiece stood a copy of a full-length photograph of my wife, which had been taken at my request only three months ago.
(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
A cancer vaccine consisting of a recombinant modified vaccinia Ankara (MVA) viral vector encoding the gene for the CD4 epitope-rich C-terminal domain of the Epstein Barr Virus (EBV) antigen EBNA1 and fused to the full-length of the EBV-associated antigen latent membrane protein 2 (LMP2), with potential immunostimulatory and antineoplastic activities.
(MVA-EBNA1/LMP2 Vaccine, NCI Thesaurus)
