length
The distance measured along the longest dimension of an object.
Other meanings
The length of a horse, used to indicate the distance between horses at the end of a race.
“five lengths ahead of the field”
Distance between the two ends of a line segment.
Related words
- ribbonlength
- after length
- after-length
- arm's length principle
- at arm's length
- bishop's length
- Bjerrum length
- block length
- calibrated focal length
- cocktail length
- commutator length
- Debye length
Word history
From Old English "lengþ".
Where this comes from
This definition is adapted from “length” on Wiktionary, by its contributors, published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.