WIDTH

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does width mean? 

• WIDTH (noun)
  The noun WIDTH has 1 sense:

1. the extent of something from side to side

  Familiarity information: WIDTH used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• WIDTH (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The extent of something from side to side

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

breadth; width

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)

 Context examples 

A radiologic finding characterized by an increased width of the metaphyseal regions.

(Metaphyseal Widening, NCI Thesaurus)

The tail, a mixture of dust and hydrogen gas, extends nearly 200,000 light-years, about the width of two Milky Way galaxies.

(Hubble Sees Plunging Galaxy Losing Its Gas, NASA)

In fact, the wind drags the magnetic field more than 2,000 light-years across - close to the width of the wind itself.

(Galactic Wind Provides Clues to Evolution of Galaxies, NASA)

NOTE(S): This is marked as derived since the notion of duration is captured in the IVL (width) portion of the actualDateRange attribute.

(Performed Activity Actual Duration, NCI Thesaurus/BRIDG)

The intrinsic muscles spanning the width of the tongue that depress and flatten the tongue.

(Intrinsic Tongue Muscle Vertical Component, NCI Thesaurus)

The measurement of a lesion in the 'Y' (second or width) dimension.

(Performed Lesion Description Y Dimension, NCI Thesaurus)

The distance on the imaged subject that corresponds to the width (or the height typically the same as the width) of the smallest piece of the subject that is displayed as a pixel.

(Pixel Size, NCI Thesaurus)

The resulting debris is now scattered along a 3,000-mile-long trail, larger than the width of the continental U.S.

(Hubble Takes Close-up Look at Disintegrating Comet, NASA)

The field of ice is almost a league in width, but I spent nearly two hours in crossing it.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

Its shape is dependent on a location parameter, which specifies the peak of the curve, and a scale parameter which specifies the half-width at half-maximum.

(Cauchy Distribution, NCI Thesaurus)