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thickness
CIDE DICTIONARY
thickness, n. [AS. icnes.].
The quality or state of being thick (in any of the senses of the adjective). [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
thickness, n.
1 the state of being thick.
2 the extent to which a thing is thick.
3 a layer of material of a certain thickness (three thicknesses of cardboard).
4 a part that is thick or lies between opposite surfaces (steps cut in the thickness of the wall).
1 the state of being thick.
2 the extent to which a thing is thick.
3 a layer of material of a certain thickness (three thicknesses of cardboard).
4 a part that is thick or lies between opposite surfaces (steps cut in the thickness of the wall).
Etymology
OE thicness (as THICK, -NESS)
THESAURUS
thickness
adhesiveness, band, bed, bedding, belt, bodily size, body, bulk, cacophony, clabbering, clamminess, closeness, clotting, coagulation, coarseness, colloidality, compactness, congestedness, congestion, consistence, consistency, corpulence, couche, course, cracked voice, crowdedness, curdling, deck, denseness, density, depth, discord, distance through, doughiness, dryness, fatness, firmness, floor, gallery, gelatinity, gelatinousness, gluelikeness, gluiness, glutinosity, glutinousness, grossness, gruffness, gumlikeness, gumminess, gutturalism, gutturality, gutturalness, hardness, harshness, heaviness, hoarseness, huskiness, impenetrability, impermeability, imporosity, incompressibility, incrassation, inspissation, jammedness, jellification, jellylikeness, layer, ledge, lentor, level, mass, measures, mucilaginousness, overlayer, overstory, pastiness, raspiness, raucity, relative density, ropiness, roughness, rudeness, scrapiness, scratchiness, seam, shelf, slabbiness, sliminess, solidity, solidness, specific gravity, spissitude, stage, step, stertorousness, stickiness, stodginess, story, stratum, stringiness, substratum, superstratum, syrupiness, tackiness, tenaciousness, tenacity, the third dimension, thickening, throatiness, tier, topsoil, toughness, treacliness, ugliness, underlayer, understory, understratum, viscidity, viscosity, viscousness, zoneROGET THESAURUS
thickness
Thickness,
N breadth, thickness, breadth, width, latitude, amplitude, diameter, bore, caliber, radius, superficial extent, thickness, crassitude, corpulence, dilation, broad, wide, ample, extended, discous, fanlike, outspread, outstretched, wide as a church-door, latifoliate, latifolous, thick, dumpy, squab, squat, thickset, thick as a rope, breadth, thickness, breadth, width, latitude, amplitude, diameter, bore, caliber, radius, superficial extent, thickness, crassitude, corpulence, dilation, broad, wide, ample, extended, discous, fanlike, outspread, outstretched, wide as a church-door, latifoliate, latifolous, thick, dumpy, squab, squat, thickset, thick as a rope.For further exploring for "thickness" in Webster Dictionary Online