width
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The brain tumour, he said, was like "a monster with tentacles spreading across the underside of my brain the width of a baseball".
From BBC • May 13, 2026
In this case, however, the team observed electrons arranging themselves at temperatures near -253°C. Their microscope could resolve structures as small as one hundred-thousandth the width of a human hair.
From Science Daily • Apr. 28, 2026
When they designed a table using a plank with a natural gap, they left the gap in the center, which helped them get the right width and refine its shape.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 8, 2026
Now baseball has coldly defined the strike zone as 17 inches of plate width, 8.5 inches of plate depth, passing between 53.5 and 27% of his height.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 26, 2026
They learned to wind film into the camera, how to compose a photo, how to calculate the proper aperture and width.
From "Little Fires Everywhere" by Celeste Ng
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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