thickness
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Roll the dough: On a lightly floured surface, roll the dough into roughly a 12-by-16-inch rectangle, about the thickness of dough for cinnamon rolls.
From Salon ● Aug. 16, 2026
The devices had an equivalent oxide thickness of roughly one nanometer.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 9, 2026
It measures just 4.1 millimetres in thickness and weighs 215 grammes.
From Barron's ● Jul. 22, 2026
While the thickness was similar, the condition declined with age.
From BBC ● Jul. 6, 2026
Though just barely substantial enough to support body weight, the rime was plastered over the rock to a thickness of two or three feet, so I kept plugging upward.
From "Into the Wild" by Jon Krakauer
Earlier versions of such gratings, made from materials like silicon or gallium compounds, required thicknesses of several hundred nanometers to function effectively.
From Science Daily ● Apr. 5, 2026
There are different curl patterns, porosity, and thicknesses of hair.
From National Geographic ● Aug. 22, 2023
The team then tested the stability of the lava under a range of speeds, viscosities, and layer thicknesses.
From Science Magazine ● Jun. 9, 2023
Unlike a car bumper or a plastic bottle, which holds its shape as a robot handles it, cloth is floppy and comes in an endless array of thicknesses and textures.
From Reuters ● Dec. 12, 2022
This pile of paper doesn’t stack together very well—pages and pages of different widths and lengths and thicknesses.
From "Code Name Verity" by Elizabeth Wein
