width
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It measures approximately 11 centimeters long, six centimeters in width, and about three centimeters thick.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 27, 2026
The machines use focused beams of ultraviolet light to etch on wafers of silicon billions of transistors roughly the width of a strand of DNA.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 24, 2026
They changed the width of the antennas as well as the size and placement of the corrugations.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 22, 2026
With England's seamers offering width too often, Australia had matched their boundary count by the 10th over of the chase.
From BBC ● Jul. 5, 2026
It was a hand’s width below now, even when the river was at its fullest.
From Anya and the Dragon by Sofiya Pasternack
Like walking museum plaques, they glided through rooms in silk brocade gowns, panniers extending their hips to improbable widths, dispensing facts about furnishings.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 16, 2026
The idea was that properties would be continuously redeveloped and that the streets would eventually reach new, consistent widths.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 26, 2024
The researchers experimentally identified the flood conditions that make pedestrians vulnerable and utilized computer simulations of different city block patterns, building heights, and street widths to assess the configurations that best protect people.
From Science Daily ● Apr. 9, 2024
The plan is to send multiple pipes of differing widths through the estimated 60m debris wall to create a micro-tunnel through which the workers can crawl out of the tunnel.
From BBC ● Nov. 22, 2023
They were filled with rolled white threads in many different widths and textures.
From "Gathering Blue" by Lois Lowry
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Geometry - Introductory
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Measurement and Data, List 2
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Geometry (Base List)
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