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Length   /lɛŋkθ/  /lɛŋθ/   Listen
Length

noun
1.
The linear extent in space from one end to the other; the longest dimension of something that is fixed in place.
2.
Continuance in time.  Synonym: duration.  "He complained about the length of time required"
3.
The property of being the extent of something from beginning to end.
4.
Size of the gap between two places.  Synonym: distance.  "He determined the length of the shortest line segment joining the two points"
5.
A section of something that is long and narrow.  "A length of tubing"



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"Length" Quotes from Famous Books



... avatar at length took place. The bumboat and the frigate lovingly rubbed sides, and, like an angel descending from heaven, I saw Bill coming down the after-hatchway, his face radiant with the glory of expectant ...
— Rattlin the Reefer • Edward Howard
... to put before the House at some length what is our position in regard to Belgium. The governing factor is the Treaty of 1839, but this is a treaty with a history—a history accumulated since. In 1870, when there was war between France and Germany, the question of the neutrality ...
— New York Times Current History: The European War from the Beginning to March 1915, Vol 1, No. 2 - Who Began the War, and Why? • Various
... the northern shore of the harbour. Within the entrance are extensive sandbanks, leaving between them and the south shore a narrow, and in some parts deep, channel, subject to a rapid stream of tide. Port Stephens may be considered a large estuary, about fifteen miles in length, contracted near the centre to a width of about a mile, which is further lessened by the presence of a woody islet, the same I have before alluded to. Nearly two miles within this narrow the Beagle anchored off the settlement of the Australian Agricultural ...
— Discoveries in Australia, Volume 1. • J Lort Stokes
... the water as it flowed over the clean sand and stones. A girl in a yellow-straw hat; yes, and precisely the person he had hoped, at the first glance, that it might be. He made no haste as he drew nearer on the descending path. At length his footstep was heard; Marian Yule turned her head ...
— New Grub Street • George Gissing
... cried Farwell at length. "It's Priscilla Glenn. Bad child! It's many a day since we had a lesson. There! there! no excuses. Sit down ...
— The Place Beyond the Winds • Harriet T. Comstock


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