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thickness

Pronunciation: /ˈθɪknəs/

The English word “thickness” has 7 meanings listed here.

noun

  1. The property of being thick (in dimension).
  2. A measure of how thick (in dimension) something is.
  3. A layer.
  4. The quality of being thick (in consistency).
  5. The property of being thick (slow to understand).
  6. The minimum number of planar subgraphs which a given graph can decompose into.

verb

  1. To trim (wood) to a consistent thickness using a thickness planer.

Etymology

From Middle English thikkenesse, thiknesse, from Old English þicnes (“thickness, viscosity, density, hardness; obscurity, cloud, darkness; thicket; depth, a thick body, anything thick or heavy”), from Proto-West Germanic *þikkwīnassī (“thickness”), equivalent to thick + -ness. Cognate with West Frisian tsjokkens (“thickness”), Old High German dickinessī, dikkinissi, diknissi (“thickness,…

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