B2noun · countable / uncountable · rare

thickness

thick·ness

thickness · thicknesses

товщина

толщина, густота

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The property of being thickThe property of being thick (in dimension).

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/ˈθɪknəs/

» These copybooks are the same thickness.

Эти тетради одинаковой толщины.

Meaning

6 senses

(uncountable)The property of being thick (in dimension).
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толщина́tolščiná
товщина́tovščyná
(countable, uncountable)A measure of how thick (in dimension) something is.
The thickness of the Earth's crust varies from two to 70 kilometres.
Guitar picks come in different thicknesses.
Dicke
толщина́tolščiná
(countable)A layer.
We upholstered the seat with three thicknesses of cloth to make it more comfortable to sit on.
(uncountable)The quality of being thick (in consistency).
Whip the cream until it reaches a good thickness.
Dicke
густота́gustotá
(informal, uncountable)The property of being thick (slow to understand).
(countable)The minimum number of planar subgraphs which a given graph can decompose into.

More definitions

resistance to flow
the dimension through an object as opposed to its length or width
used of a line or mark
indistinct articulation

Examples

17 sentences

These copybooks are the same thickness.
ruЭти тетради одинаковой толщины.
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These personal organizers are different thicknesses.
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These plywood beams are of different thicknesses.
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The iPad 2 has around 9 millimeters of thickness.
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What is the thickness of that novel?
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Translations

9 languages

Українська

By meaning 1

property of being thick in dimension:

Русский

By meaning 2

property of being thick in dimension:

in consistency:

Deutsch

By meaning 1

property of being thick in dimension:

Origin

From Middle English thikkenesse, thiknesse, from Old English þicnes (“thickness, viscosity

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, density”). Eclipsed non-native Middle English crassitude (“thickness”) from Latin crassitūdō (“thickness”).

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