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thickness

noun

  1. geological measurement
  2. wide; width/heftiness measurement
  3. crowded, as with many individuals crammed together; density/sparsity measurement
  4. state of unintelligence
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Wiktionary

Pronunciation: /ˈθɪknəs/

noun

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

  1. The property of being thick (in dimension).
  2. 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.

  3. A layer.

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

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

    Whip the cream until it reaches a good thickness.

  5. The property of being thick (slow to understand).
  6. The minimum number of planar subgraphs which a given graph can decompose into.

verb

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

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

    Even if the parts are thicknessed by machine, check for and plane out any cup with a bench plane.