width

Noun

Meaning

The quality of being wide; extent from side to side; breadth; wideness; as, the width of cloth; the width of a door.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

breadth mass sise area size space range amount wide distance length compass calibre bigness comprehensiveness
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Antonyms

acme building amount apex crest bigness
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Hypernyms

dimension

Hyponyms

beam narrowness broadness

Phrases with the word

wide-width bus width swept-path width frame buffer width half the width of a diameter pulse-width modulated

Examples

I [prefer] a short life with width to a narrow one with length. Avicenna

The width of a line may present the idea of infinity. An epigram may contain a world. In the same way, a small picture format may be much more living, much more leavening, stirring, awakening, than square yards of wall space. Hans Hofmann

I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I lived just the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well. Diane Ackerman

The letters Z, O and O dominate the front entrance gates of a capital city zoo. They are made of glass and they tower up two giraffes high. They are the width of one elephant and the colour of bottled blue ink. Peter Greenaway

Nanoengineering is learning how to make devices as small as 10 to 100 atoms in width. Much of the work is going on in the electronics industry, where there is great demand to pack more components onto computer chips. George M. Whitesides

Nanotechnology is the idea that we can create devices and machines all the way down to the nanometer scale, which is a billionth of a meter, about half the width of a human DNA molecule. Paul McEuen

Close letter words and terms

widowy Widrick Widsith width restriction widthen widthless