What does thickness mean?
Definitions for thickness
ˈθɪk nɪsthick·ness
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Princeton's WordNet
thicknessnoun
the dimension through an object as opposed to its length or width
thicknessnoun
indistinct articulation
"judging from the thickness of his speech he had been drinking heavily"
thickness, heavinessnoun
used of a line or mark
thicknessnoun
resistance to flow
Wiktionary
thicknessnoun
The property of being thick (in dimension).
thicknessnoun
A measure of how thick (in dimension) something is.
The thickness of the Earth's crust is varies from two to 70 kilometres.
thicknessnoun
A layer.
We upholstered the seat with three thicknesses of cloth to make it more comfortable to sit on.
thicknessnoun
The quality of being thick (in consistency).
Whip the cream until it reaches a good thickness.
thicknessnoun
The property of being thick (slow to understand).
Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
Thicknessnoun
Etymology: from thick.
In the darkened room, against the hole at which the light entered, I could easily see through the whole thickness of my hand the motions of a body placed beyond it. Boyle.
Poll a tree, and cover it some thickness with clay on the top, and see what it will put forth. Francis Bacon, Nat. Hist.
Nitre mingled with water to the thickness of honey, and anointed on the bud after the vine is cut, it will sprout forth. Francis Bacon, Nat. Hist. №. 444.
Diseases imagined to come from the thickness of blood, come often from the contrary cause. John Arbuthnot, on Aliments.
The banks of the river and the thickness of the shades drew into them all the birds of the country. Addison.
A person found in himself, being at some times subject to a thickness of hearing, the like effect. William Holder.
What you write is printed in large letters; otherwise between the weakness of my eyes and thickness of hearing, I should lose the greatest pleasure. Jonathan Swift.
ChatGPT
thickness
Thickness generally refers to the measurement of the distance between two opposite surfaces of an object, often seen as a dimension. It can apply to a three-dimensional entity's extent from one side to another, often the smallest dimension. Thickness is usually a tangible, physical measurement but can also refer metaphorically to the density or depth of intangible things.
Webster Dictionary
Thicknessnoun
the quality or state of being thick (in any of the senses of the adjective)
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Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of thickness in Chaldean Numerology is: 4
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of thickness in Pythagorean Numerology is: 9
Examples of thickness in a Sentence
The combination of ultra-thin glass, less than the thickness of human hair, and very high strength allows glass to be bent, twisted, etc. without fracture, it will not fold flat like a dollar bill, but you could fold it around a metal rod and you could do it over and over and it will still go back to flat [ without ] creases.
It will take months for pricing to bed down, and it certainly won't be figured out before Christmas, banks are in transition right now so it's difficult to know what the thickness of their capital layers will be and how various instruments are priced will be dependent on that.
Not all books of same size, weight, length, thickness have same number of pages.
The constructed slab thickness based on the core data seems to be at least equal to the value shown on the original drawings. So I am not sure what they are referring to as ‘curious results,’.
Graz Professor Thomas Schmikl:
The openings will have to be large enough to allow the robot to get in, we expect the robot to have a size (we are still in the design phase, so these are just estimates here) of approximately 50cm [20 inches] long and a thickness of 20cm [8 inches], maybe a bit slimmer.
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