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THICKNESS
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Resistance to flow
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Hypernyms ("thickness" is a kind of...):
body; consistence; consistency; substance (the property of holding together and retaining its shape)
Attribute:
thick (relatively dense in consistency)
thin (relatively thin in consistency or low in density; not viscous)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "thickness"):
semifluidity (a property midway between a solid and a liquid)
creaminess; soupiness (the property of having the thickness of heavy cream)
Antonym:
thinness (a consistency of low viscosity)
Derivation:
thick (relatively dense in consistency)
Sense 2
Meaning:
The dimension through an object as opposed to its length or width
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Hypernyms ("thickness" is a kind of...):
dimension (the magnitude of something in a particular direction (especially length or width or height))
Attribute:
thick (not thin; of a specific thickness or of relatively great extent from one surface to the opposite usually in the smallest of the three solid dimensions)
thin (of relatively small extent from one surface to the opposite or in cross section)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "thickness"):
gauge (the thickness of wire)
Antonym:
thinness (relatively small dimension through an object as opposed to its length or width)
Derivation:
thick (hard to pass through because of dense growth)
Sense 3
Meaning:
Used of a line or mark
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Hypernyms ("thickness" is a kind of...):
broadness; wideness (the property of being wide; having great width)
Derivation:
thick (not thin; of a specific thickness or of relatively great extent from one surface to the opposite usually in the smallest of the three solid dimensions)
Sense 4
Meaning:
Indistinct articulation
Example:
judging from the thickness of his speech he had been drinking heavily
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Hypernyms ("thickness" is a kind of...):
articulation (the aspect of pronunciation that involves bringing articulatory organs together so as to shape the sounds of speech)
Derivation:
thick (spoken as if with a thick tongue)
Context examples:
The thickness of a wire or a similarly shaped object.
(Gauge, NCI Thesaurus)
Morphologically it involves more than 15% of the thickness of the esophageal squamous epithelium.
(Esophageal Basal Cell Hyperplasia, NCI Thesaurus)
An instrument designed to cut frozen tissue specimens on the order of micron-scale thickness, generally for the purposes of histolgical evaluation.
(Cryostat, NCI Thesaurus)
This will vary depending on the thickness of the bone.
(Dual x-ray absorptiometry, NCI Thesaurus)
From the new model, the team generated global maps of the crust’s density and thickness.
(New Gravity Map Suggests Mars Has a Porous Crust, NASA)
Europa has a huge global ocean containing twice as much water as Earth's oceans, but it is protected by a layer of extremely cold and hard ice of unknown thickness.
(Possible Water Plumes on Jupiter's Moon Europa, NASA)
It was of the same peculiar tint, and the same thickness.
(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
By increasing the numbers of hair follicles in and duration of anagen phase, bimatoprost may help increase eyebrow and eyelash growth and appearance, including their length, thickness and darkness.
(Bimatoprost Ophthalmic Solution, NCI Thesaurus)
He pointed to one corner, in which lay the great Head, made out of many thicknesses of paper, and with a carefully painted face.
(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum)
The chromatin fiber has a thickness of about 30 nanometers and results from the folding of a linear array of nucleosomes (thickness about 10 nm) into a more compact fiber.
(Chromatin Fiber, NCI Thesaurus)
