breadth
English edit
Etymology edit
From Middle English bredthe, alteration (due to nouns ending in -th: length, strength, wrength, etc.) of brede ("breadth"; see bread). Equivalent to broad + -th. Cognate with Scots bredth (“breadth”), Saterland Frisian Bratte (“breadth”), West Frisian breedte (“breadth”), Dutch breedte (“breadth”), German Low German Breddte, Breddt (“breadth”), German Breite (“breadth”), Danish bredde (“breadth”), Norwegian Bokmål bredde (“breadth”), Swedish bredd (“breadth”).
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
breadth (countable and uncountable, plural breadths)
- The extent or measure of how broad or wide something is; width.
- The breadth of the corridor is 4.5 metres.
- 1873, Charles Tomlinson, chapter III, in Winter in the Arctic Regions and Summer in the Antarctic Regions[1], London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, →OCLC, page 122:
- The sledges of the Esquimaux are of large size, varying from six and a half to nine and even eleven feet in length, and from eighteen inches to two feet in breadth.
- A piece of fabric of standard width.
- Scope or range, especially of knowledge or skill.
- expand one's breadth of marketing
- (art) A style in painting in which details are strictly subordinated to the harmony of the whole composition.
- (graph theory) The length of the longest path between two vertices in a graph.
Synonyms edit
- (extent or measure of how broad something is): width
- (piece of fabric of standard width):
- (scope or range): extent, range, scope, size
Derived terms edit
- acre breadth
- bizygomatic breadth
- breadth of accommodation
- breadthen
- breadth-first search
- breadth-first traversal
- breadth-height index
- breadth index
- breadth indicator
- breadthless
- breadth-line
- breadth of effect
- breadth of market
- breadth-of-market theory
- breadth of mind
- breadth of the market
- breadth of tone
- breadth-riders
- breadthways
- breadthwise
- by a hair's breadth
- curve of constant breadth
- finger-breadth, fingerbreadth
- finger's breadth
- foot-breadth, footbreadth
- hairbreadth
- hair's breadth, hairsbreadth
- handbreadth, hand's breadth, handsbreadth
- index of breadth
- straw-breadth, straw's breadth
- wheel breadth
Translations edit
width — see width
piece of fabric of standard width
scope, range
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