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Meaning of "thickness" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF THICKNESS

thickness  [ˈθɪknɪs] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF THICKNESS

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Thickness is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES THICKNESS MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Thickness

Thickness may refer to: ▪ Thickness in graph theory ▪ Thickness of layers in Geology ▪ Thickness The difference in height between two atmospheric pressure levels ▪ Thickness planer a woodworking machine ▪ Optical thickness in optics ▪ Thickness is a concept in Go...

Definition of thickness in the English dictionary

The first definition of thickness in the dictionary is the state or quality of being thick. Other definition of thickness is the dimension through an object, as opposed to length or width. Thickness is also a layer of something.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH THICKNESS


airsickness
ˈɛəsɪknɪs
anti-motion-sickness
ˌæntɪˈməʊʃənˈsɪknɪs
blackness
ˈblæknɪs
bleakness
ˈbliːknɪs
chromaticness
krəʊˈmætɪknɪs
darkness
ˈdɑːknɪs
gallsickness
ˈɡɔːlˌsɪknɪs
graphicness
ˈɡræfɪknɪs
greensickness
ˈɡriːnˌsɪknɪs
homesickness
ˈhəʊmsɪknɪs
likeness
ˈlaɪknɪs
lovesickness
ˈlʌvsɪknɪs
lychnis
ˈlɪknɪs
quickness
ˈkwɪknɪs
seasickness
ˈsiːsɪknɪs
sickness
ˈsɪknɪs
slackness
ˈslæknɪs
slickness
ˈslɪknɪs
uniqueness
juːˈniːknɪs
weakness
ˈwiːknɪs

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE THICKNESS

thick-wittedness
thicken
thickener
thickening
thicket
thicketed
thickety
thickhead
thickheaded
thickheadedness
thickie
thickies
thickish
thickleaf
thickleaves
thickly
thicko
thickset
thickskin
thicky

WORDS THAT END LIKE THICKNESS

African sleeping sickness
altitude sickness
blankness
business
dankness
decompression sickness
frankness
Greekness
meekness
morning sickness
motion sickness
mountain sickness
pitch darkness
Prince of Darkness
radiation sickness
semi-darkness
serum sickness
sleekness
sleeping sickness
starkness
travel-sickness

Synonyms and antonyms of thickness in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

SYNONYMS OF «THICKNESS»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «thickness» and belong to the same grammatical category.
synonyms of thickness

Translation of «thickness» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF THICKNESS

Find out the translation of thickness to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of thickness from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «thickness» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

厚度
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

grosor
570 millions of speakers

English

thickness
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

मोटाई
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

سَمَاكَة
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

толщина
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

espessura
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

বেধ
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

épaisseur
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Ketebalan
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Dicke
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

厚さ
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

두께
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Kekandelan
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

độ dày
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

தடிமன்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

जाडी
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

kalınlık
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

spessore
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

grubość
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

товщина
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

grosime
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

πάχος
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

dik
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

tjocklek
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

tykkelse
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of thickness

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «THICKNESS»

The term «thickness» is very widely used and occupies the 8.306 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «THICKNESS» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «thickness» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «thickness» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about thickness

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7 QUOTES WITH «THICKNESS»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word thickness.
1
Craig Bruce
Don't judge a book by its thickness either.
2
John Clayton
In the surface of the paper there is only length and width-there is no such thing as thickness.
3
Merle Haggard
When I grew up there wasn't air-conditioning or anything of that nature, and this old car had a wall thickness of about ten inches. So we had a little warmer house in the winter and a little cooler in the summer.
4
Denis Healey
The difference between tax avoidance and tax evasion is the thickness of a prison wall.
5
John Joly
The sediments of the past are many miles in collective thickness: yet the feeble silt of the rivers built them all from base to summit.
6
Gabriel Lippmann
In the case of composite colour, an infinity of systems must be obtained for maxima infinitely slight and with an infinity of interval values separating them - that is to say, the whole thickness of the sensitive layer is occupied in continuous manner by these maxima.
7
Vitruvius
The thickness of the walls should be sufficient for two armed men to pass each other with ease.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «THICKNESS»

Discover the use of thickness in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to thickness and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Through-thickness Tension Testing of Steel: A Symposium
"Some Effects of Specimen Design, Sample Location, and Material Strength on Through-Thickness Tensile Properties," Through-Thickness Tension Testing of Steel. ASTM STP 794. R. J. Glodowski. Ed., American Society for Testing and ...
R. J. Glodowski, 1983
2
Relationship of Air Voids, Lift Thickness, and Permeability ...
Summarization of the report Relationships of HMA in-place air voids, lift thickness, and permeability.
‎2004
3
Effective thickness of paper: appraisal and further development
The concept of 'effective thickness' obtained from a simultaneous solution of equations for flexural and extensional stiffness is proposed to mathematically transform the rough surfaced fibrous paper structure into a mechanistically ...
Michael R. Rosenthal, Forest Products Laboratory (U.S.), United States. Forest Service, 1977
4
3-D Structural Geology: A Practical Guide to Surface and ...
2.6 Thickness of Plane Beds The best thickness measurement is the most direct. In a completely exposed outcrop, bed thickness can be measured directly on the bed. In a well that is perpendicular to bedding, the thickness in the well is the ...
Richard H. Groshong, 1999
5
Test of an equation for predicting bark thickness of western ...
where B; = D; = B4.6 = D4.5= ,th bark thickness at the / level on the tree stem (h diameter outside bark at the i bark thickness at breast height diameter at breast height outside bark level on the tree stem This equation can also be used to ...
James E. Brickell, Intermountain Forest and Range Experiment Station (Ogden, Utah), 1970
6
Guide for Concrete Floor and Slab Construction
The presence of camber in some floor members and the ACI 117 limitation on tolerances in slab thickness dictate that concrete be placed at a uniform thickness over the supporting steel. When placing slabs on metal decking, the contractor is  ...
ACI Committee 302, 2004
7
Thickness design for concrete pavements
Demonstrates thickness designs for concrete pavement that properly balances first cost and maintenance costs.
Portland Cement Association, 1966
8
MRI: Basic Principles and Applications
The gradient direction (x, y, z, or a combination) determines the slice orientation, while the gradient amplitude, together with certain RF pulse characteristics, determine both the slice thickness and slice position. A frequency-selective RF pulse ...
Mark A. Brown, Richard C. Semelka, 2011
9
Transmission Electron Microscopy: A Textbook for Materials ...
Mass-thickness contrast arises from incoherent elastic scattering (Rutherford scattering) of electrons. As we saw back in Chapter 3, the cross section for Rutherford scatter is a strong function of the atomic number Z (hence the mass or the ...
David B. Williams, C. Barry Carter, 2009
10
Handbook of Nonwoven Filter Media
6.4 Caliper or Thickness Caliper and thickness are synonymous terms referring to the surface-to-surface distance of the web. The thickness measurement is simple enough. Usually the web is placed under the presser foot of a thickness gauge ...
Irwin Marshall Hutten, 2007

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «THICKNESS»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term thickness is used in the context of the following news items.
1
Down syndrome linked to cortex thickness: Study
Washington: On average, cortex is thicker in youth with Down Syndrome than in typically developing youth, even though the overall volume of the cortex is lower ... «Zee News, Jun 15»
2
'Extensive external corrosion' found in California oil spill pipe
It had degraded the pipe wall thickness to 1/16 of an inch, and that there was a 6-inch opening near the bottom of the pipe. Additionally, the report noted that the ... «Al Jazeera America, Jun 15»
3
Evidence Of Thicker Spring Sea Ice In Arctic
Click to enlarge. Arctic sea ice thickness over the 28 days from 10 April 2015 to 7 May 2015 from CryoSat near real time (NRT) datat. Courtesy: UCL/COPM and ... «reportingclimatescience.com, May 15»
4
Arctic sea ice extent down, thickness up: data center
This map shows sea ice thickness in meters in the Arctic Ocean from March 29 to April 25. (IMAGE COURTESY OF THE CENTER FOR POLAR OBSERVATION ... «Nunatsiaq News, May 15»
5
CryoSat Measures Arctic Ice Thickness With Impressive Speed …
CryoSat has now delivered complete maps of sea ice thickness, which strongly indicates the effect of global warming, ESA reported. The satellite boasts radar ... «Headlines & Global News, Apr 15»
6
Freshness, not thickness, matters when buying asparagus
When shopping for asparagus, people often focus on the wrong thing — how thick the stalks are. They think thinner is better. Truth is, asparagus can be ... «STLtoday.com, Mar 15»
7
ROV assesses thickness of oil slicks from underneath
Ordinarily, oil slick thickness is assessed by people in boats or aircraft, looking down on the spill from above. According to project leader Paul Panetta, however, ... «Gizmag, Mar 15»
8
On thin ice: Combined Arctic ice observations show decades of loss
The results, published in The Cryosphere, show a thinning in the central Arctic Ocean of 65 percent between 1975 and 2012. September ice thickness, when the ... «UW Today, Mar 15»
9
Ice Fishermen Asked To Consider Ice Thickness, Bait Regs
Three to four inches of solid ice is usually safe for anglers accessing ice on foot. Ice thickness can vary on various bodies of water or even within the same body ... «Niagarafallsreporter.com, Jan 15»
10
Mathematical description of relationship between thickness
MIT researchers have discovered a new mathematical relationship—between material thickness, temperature, and electrical resistance—that appears to hold in ... «Phys.Org, Dec 14»

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