thickness

About 17.02 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. noun The property of being thick (in dimension).
2. noun A measure of how thick (in dimension) something is.

   The thickness of the Earth's crust varies from two to 70 kilometres.

3. noun A layer.

   We upholstered the seat with three thicknesses of cloth to make it more comfortable to sit on.

4. noun The quality of being thick (in consistency).

   Whip the cream until it reaches a good thickness.

5. noun The property of being thick (slow to understand).
6. noun The minimum number of planar subgraphs which a given graph can decompose into.
7. verb To trim (wood) to a consistent thickness using a thickness planer.

Similar words

heaviness thick thickening height width depth layer ply accumulation blade

Often followed by

of and is in to from at for as

Word family

thicknesses