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WIDTH

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

The extent of something from side to side

Synonyms:

breadth; width

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Hypernyms ("width" is a kind of...):

dimension (the magnitude of something in a particular direction (especially length or width or height))

Attribute:

broad; wide (having great (or a certain) extent from one side to the other)

narrow (not wide)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "width"):

broadness; wideness (the property of being wide; having great width)

beam ((nautical) breadth amidships)

narrowness (the property of being narrow; having little width)

Credits

 Context examples: 

The product of the number of computed tomography (CT) scans multiplied by the scan width (i.e., total scan length).

(Dose Length Product, NCI Thesaurus)

A mark that is long relative to its width; a length (straight or curved) without breadth or thickness; the trace of a moving point.

(Line, NCI Thesaurus)

Measuring 10,000 miles (16,000 kilometers) in width as of April 3, 2017, the Great Red Spot is 1.3 times as wide as Earth.

(NASA's Juno Probes the Depths of Jupiter's Great Red Spot, NASA)

Pacing voltage or pulse width is less than desired.

(Inadequate Pacing Medical Device Problem, Food and Drug Administration)

The magnitude of something in a particular direction, especially length or width or height.

(Dimension, NCI Thesaurus)

Fine inhalable particles are 30 times smaller than the width of a human hair, can pass through the lungs’ defenses, and are absorbed directly into the bloodstream.

(Kids living near major roads at higher risk of developmental delays, National Institutes of Health)

It would take about 300-1,000 viruses lined up side by side to equal the width of a human hair.

(Smartphone microscope detects nanoparticles and viruses, NIH)

I estimated its circumference at twenty-five miles, its width as varying from two to five miles; while my most conservative calculation placed on its beaches two hundred thousand seals.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

It was, as seen from this height, of an oval contour, with a breadth of about thirty miles and a width of twenty.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Measuring in at 10,159 miles (16,350 kilometers) in width (as of April 3, 2017) Jupiter's Great Red Spot is 1.3 times as wide as Earth.

(NASA’s Juno Spacecraft Spots Jupiter’s Great Red Spot, NASA/Jet Propulsion Laboratory)