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[width, witth or, often, with]

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noun

extent from side to side; breadth; wideness.

a piece of the full wideness, as of cloth.

Origin:
1620–30; wide + -th¹, modeled on breadth, etc.

Can be confused: width, with.

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Softwood with a nominal width of two to six inches is about half an inch less in actual width.

The width of the text should by no means exceed the length of the tail of a naked mole rat.

With no width to allow open play, that is about the only means of gaining ground at speed.

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Softwood with a nominal width of two to six inches is about half an inch less in actual width.

The width of the text should by no means exceed the length of the tail of a naked mole rat.

With no width to allow open play, that is about the only means of gaining ground at speed.

They also estimated the maximum width of geographical bottlenecks along the animals' paths.

Close to absolute zero the wavelength of the vibration eventually equals the width of the atom.

In the growth rings, we're looking for about a nickel's width.

The patio extends across the width of the house and is level with it, linking indoors and outdoors.

The screen is built into a base that's four inches deep and extends the entire width of the device.

It has an average width of five miles, and is located.

One rheometer made by the three researchers had a test channel the width of a human hair.

The width of each line should be thicker in places where volume is higher.

He adds that the width of a crater, which roughly scales with droplet speed, is a much simpler thing to predict than its depth.

It's about four feet in diameter and a foot to a foot and a half in width.

The winged shape and the ample width of the counter are carefully chosen to create intimacy without a feeling of claustrophobia.

For this, you'll want to stretch the video to the width of your computer screen.

Besides steepness, the skiability of slopes depends on snow conditions and grooming as well as width.

At two-thirds the width of an iPad, such a device could be carried in a jacket pocket with little difficulty.

For example, the width of tree rings is a measure of how well a tree grew in a particular year.

Spatial measures, such as stroke length, height and width were also tracked.

Dig a hole about twice the width of the rootball and build a cone of soil in the center.

The stick, or dowel, takes the weight of the loaded bag and spreads it over the entire width.

They vary in width from one to six feet, in length from a yard to a hundred feet, and in depth from.

If they're right across the street, it takes a length of road equal to the width of the buildings.

The gradient of the river-how quickly it drops-helps define the steepness of the sides and the width of the floor.

Researchers also hope to discover new moons that may determine the width of the rings.

Typical width is no more than one-half to two-thirds height.

The length is often compared to the width of a human hair.

Label the name of the object and include the dimensions: length, width and height.

The collapsed volcanoes had formed craters about five kilometers in width.

The width used for a particular set of layouts will be stated in the heading of that particular set.

Measure across the inside width of the well foundation.

Time behaves exactly the same as length and width and height.

The width is narrower then the old phone about a couple mm and longer a couple mm.

Measure between its sides to find the width and between the underside of the lintel and the top of the rough sill.

We also heard that readers and visitors have been unhappy with the width that the template provided for our images.

When the screen width is full, the words and pictures shift to the left.

The marvel is that a vault only inches thick could span the width of one of the world's largest cathedrals.

It's not about a particular width and height of the screen.

Do the above for a whole bunch of different points on the field and see how the angular width of the field changes.

The image shows soil particles down to sizes smaller then a tenth the width of a human hair.

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World English Dictionary

width (wɪdθ)

—n
1.	the linear extent or measurement of something from side to side, usually being the shortest dimension or (for something fixed) the shortest horizontal dimension
2.	the state or fact of being wide
3.	a piece or section of something at its full extent from side to side: a width of cloth
4.	the distance across a rectangular swimming bath, as opposed to its length

[C17: from wide + -th¹, analogous to breadth]

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width

1627, formed on model of breadth, and replacing wideness. Johnson (1755) calls it "a low word."

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