Breadth vs Length - What's the difference?
As nouns the difference between breadth and length is that breadth is the extent or measure of how broad or wide something is while length is the distance measured along the longest dimension of an object. As a verb length is (obsolete) to lengthen.
breadth
English
Noun
(en noun )
The extent or measure of how broad or wide something is.
A piece of fabric of standard width.
Scope or range, especially of knowledge or skill.
(math) (graph theory ) the length of the longest path between two vertices on a graph
Synonyms
* (extent or measure of how broad something is) width
* (piece of fabric of standard width)
* (scope or range) extent, range, scope, size
Derived terms
* acre breadth
* bizygomatic breadth
* breadth of accommodation
* breadthen
* breadth-first search
* breadth-first traversal
* breadth-height index
* breadth index
* breadth indicator
* breadthless
* breadth-line
* breadth of effect
* breadth of market
* breadth-of-market theory
* breadth of mind
* breadth of the market
* breadth of tone
* breadth-riders
* breadthways
* breadthwise
* curve of constant breadth
* finger-breadth, fingerbreadth
* finger’s breadth
* foot-breadth, footbreadth
* hairbreadth
* hair’s breadth, hairsbreadth
* handbreadth, hand’s breadth, handsbreadth
* index of breadth
* straw-breadth, straw’s breadth
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length
English
Noun
(en noun )
The distance measured along the longest dimension of an object.
duration
* Robert Frost
- Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length .
(horse racing) The length of a horse, used to indicate the distance between horses at the end of a race.
(mathematics) Distance between the two ends of a line segment.
(cricket) The distance down the pitch that the ball bounces on its way to the batsman.
(figuratively) Total extent.
- the length of a book
Part of something that is long; a physical piece of something.
- a length of rope
Derived terms
* arm’s length
* at length
* cable length
* feature-length
* floor-length
* focal length
* full-length
* good length
* go to great lengths
* half-length
* knee-length
* lengthen
* lengthful
* length overall
* lengthways
* lengthwise
* lengthy
* line and length
* null patch length
* overlength
* path length
* screening length
* short of a length
* wavelength
* zero-length launching
Verb
(en verb )
(obsolete) To lengthen.
* 1599 , , XIV. 30:
- Pack night, peep day; good day, of night now borrow: / Short night, to-night, and length thyself to-morrow.
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