thickness

[thik-nis]

noun

1. the state or quality of being thick.

2. the measure of the smallest dimension of a solid figure.

   a board of two-inch thickness.

3. the thick part or body of something.

   the thickness of the leg.

4. a layer, stratum, or ply.

   three thicknesses of cloth.

verb (used with object)

1. to bring (a piece, as a board) to a uniform thickness.

thickness

/ ˈθɪknɪs /

noun

1. the state or quality of being thick

2. the dimension through an object, as opposed to length or width

3. a layer of something

4. a thick part

Word History and Origins

Origin of thickness¹

before 900; Middle English thiknesse, Old English thicnes. See thick, -ness

Example Sentences

It’s a big update, particularly in thickness…make that thinness.

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It is also larger than previous models, measuring eight millimeters in diameter and four millimeters in thickness.

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The thickness of his tall boots must have absorbed the blows, for the admiral did not seem to mind or even stop to acknowledge his tiny attacker.

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Countless stacks of computer data sheets about the size and thickness of a DVD player were piled on top of my desk, and I recalculated the math for the entire trajectory of the voyage.

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Radiation might knock out a piece of the cell’s DNA, change the structure of the cell wall, or alter the thickness of the fluid in the cell.

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Related Words

• consistency 
• density 
• diameter 
• dimension 
• girth 
• layer 
• sheet 
• width