width
noun
extent from side to side; breadth; wideness.
widths
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pluralof width.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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But 78% of pedestrian fatalities happen on roads with such widths, the Journal found.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 18, 2026
The researchers experimentally identified the flood conditions that make pedestrians vulnerable and utilized computer simulations of different city block patterns, building heights, and street widths to assess the configurations that best protect people.
From Science Daily ● Apr. 9, 2024
For each material, you can choose among a variety of depths and widths.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 28, 2023
The plan is to send multiple pipes of differing widths through the estimated 60m debris wall to create a micro-tunnel through which the workers can crawl out of the tunnel.
From BBC ● Nov. 22, 2023
As you can see, making smaller and smaller rectangles—whose widths, denoted by the symbol Δx, go to zero—makes the value closer and closer to 32, the true value for the area of the triangle.
From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife
