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US
/ˈɫɛŋkθ, ˈɫɛŋθ/
]
[ UK /lˈɛŋθ/ ]
[ UK /lˈɛŋθ/ ]
NOUN
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a section of something that is long and narrow
a length of tubing
a length of timber -
the linear extent in space from one end to the other; the longest dimension of something that is fixed in place
the length of the table was 5 feet -
continuance in time
he complained about the length of time required
the ceremony was of short duration -
the property of being the extent of something from beginning to end
the editor limited the length of my article to 500 words -
size of the gap between two places
the distance from New York to Chicago
he determined the length of the shortest line segment joining the two points
How To Use length In A Sentence
- She took a lot of tweed and heavy suiting, an ankle-length dress and platform shoes - quite the bonkers stuff.
- The beak is smoth, black, convex and cultrated; one and 1/8 inches from the point to the opening of the chaps and 3/4 only uncovered with feathers; the upper chap exceeds the other a little in length. a few small black hairs garnish the sides of the base of the upper chap. the eye is of a uniform deep sea green or black, moderately large. it's legs feet and tallons are white; the legs are an inch and a 1/4 in length and smoth; four toes on each foot, of which that in front is the same length with the leg including the length of the tallon, which is 4 lines; the three remaining toes are The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806
- It's a bit unexpected not to include any measures of syntactic complexity - even something as simple as mean sentence length.
- AERONET is a global network of more than 100 sun photometers that measure the amount of sunlight absorbed by aerosols (fine particles in the air) at wavelengths from ultraviolet to infrared.
- After a bit of a stickybeak at the Queen's Scottish residence of Holyroodhouse, we made the most of the remaining daylight walking the length of the Royal Mile through the Old Town back to the castle, stopping by the Heart of Midlothian. TravelPod.com TravelStream™ — Recent Entries at TravelPod.com
- Neutral sodium absorbs orange light - at wavelengths of 5890 and 5896 angstroms - from stars that lie behind it.
- It is important not to confuse the sociological meaning of age with the notion of chronological age, the length of time a person has been alive. Sociology
- Most rural stations had a staff of at least six, and perhaps up to a dozen, who them carried out the duties of stationmaster, signalman, booking clerk, ticket collector, porter, shunter, lengthman and lampman.
- The visual system of most bird species, including all passerine birds tested to date, is sensitive to UV wavelengths.
- Application forms vary greatly in layout and length.
