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It measures approximately 11 centimeters long, six centimeters in width, and about three centimeters thick.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 27, 2026
The machines use focused beams of ultraviolet light to etch on wafers of silicon billions of transistors roughly the width of a strand of DNA.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 24, 2026
They changed the width of the antennas as well as the size and placement of the corrugations.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 22, 2026
"Or when it comes to designing a place like this, the doors should be designed with more width in mind. Make them wider, make it easier for customers to escape," he says.
From BBC ● Jul. 13, 2026
His arms stretch the width of the wall, and there are puffy white clouds behind him.
From "The Hate U Give" by Angie Thomas
Like walking museum plaques, they glided through rooms in silk brocade gowns, panniers extending their hips to improbable widths, dispensing facts about furnishings.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 16, 2026
When it came to choosing the plants, the couple aimed to create a dynamic garden by varying the heights and widths of the plants to achieve a visually appealing effect.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 19, 2025
The team selected locations with different river volumes, widths, channel types and glacial silt content.
From Science Daily ● Apr. 15, 2024
The plan is to send multiple pipes of differing widths through the estimated 60m debris wall to create a micro-tunnel through which the workers can crawl out of the tunnel.
From BBC ● Nov. 22, 2023
As you can see, making smaller and smaller rectangles—whose widths, denoted by the symbol Δx, go to zero—makes the value closer and closer to 32, the true value for the area of the triangle.
From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife
Vocabulary lists containing width
Geometry - Introductory
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Measurement and Data, List 2
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Geometry (Base List)
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