width

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noun
  1. extent from side to side; breadth; wideness.

  2. a piece of the full wideness, as of cloth.

Origin of width

1
1620–30; wide + -th1, modeled on breadth, etc.

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British Dictionary definitions for width

width

/ (wɪdθ) /


noun
  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

  1. a piece or section of something at its full extent from side to side: a width of cloth

  2. the distance across a rectangular swimming bath, as opposed to its length

Origin of width

1
C17: from wide + -th 1, analogous to breadth

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