breadth
noun/bɹɛdθ/ · /bɹɛtθ/
Etymology From Middle English bredthe, alteration (due to nouns ending in -th: length, strength, wrength, etc.) of brede ("breadth"; see bread). Equivalent to broad + -th (abstract nominal suffix). 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”).
The extent or measure of how broad or wide something is; width.
- The breadth of the corridor is 4.5 metres.
- 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.1873, Charles Tomlinson, chapter III, in Winter in the Arctic Regions and Summer in the Antarctic Regions, London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, →OCLC, page 122:
A piece of fabric of standard width.
Scope or range, especially of knowledge or skill.
- expand one’s breadth of marketing
- "The breadth of this LPR system is spectacular and amounts to a warrantless search."2023 July 24, Chris Eberhart, “NY police used AI to track drivers on highways as attorney questions legality”, in Fox News, archived from the original on 28 Aug 2023:
Graph theory, Mathematics, Sciences The length of the longest path between two vertices in a graph.
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