length
Noun
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tells us about:is a type of:
- physical property - any property used to characterize matter and energy and their interactions
- dimension - the magnitude of something in a particular direction (especially length or width or height)
- fundamental measure, fundamental quantity - one of the four quantities that are the basis of systems of measurement
subtypes:- circumference - the length of the closed curve of a circle
- diam, diameter - the length of a straight line passing through the center of a circle and connecting two points on the circumference
- r, radius - the length of a line segment between the center and circumference of a circle or sphere
- longness - the property of being of long spatial extent
- shortness - the property of being of short spatial extent
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tells us about:is a type of: temporal property - a property relating to timesubtypes:
- longness - duration as an extension
- continuation, lengthiness, prolongation, protraction - the consequence of being lengthened in duration
- endlessness - the property of being (or seeming to be) without end
- shortness - the property of being of short temporal extent
- brevity, briefness, transience - the attribute of being brief or fleeting
- permanence, permanency - the property of being able to exist for an indefinite duration
- impermanence, impermanency - the property of not existing for indefinitely long durations
same as: duration -
is a type of: extent - the distance or area or volume over which something extends
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is a type of: size - the physical magnitude of something (how big it is)subtypes:
- leg - (nautical) the distance traveled by a sailing vessel on a single tack
- arm's length - a distance sufficient to exclude intimacy
- gauge - the distance between the rails of a railway or between the wheels of a train
- light time - distance measured in terms of the speed of light (or radio waves)
- skip distance - the shortest distance that permits radio signals (of a given frequency) to travel from the transmitter to the receiver by reflection from the ionosphere
- wingspan, wingspread - linear distance between the extremities of an airfoil
- wingspread - distance between the tips of the wings (as of a bird or insect) when fully extended
- altitude - the perpendicular distance from the base of a geometric figure to the opposite vertex (or side if parallel)
same as: distance
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