thickness
noun
- geological measurement
- wide; width/heftiness measurement
- crowded, as with many individuals crammed together; density/sparsity measurement
- state of unintelligence
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”).
- The property of being thick (in dimension).
- 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.”
- A layer.
“We upholstered the seat with three thicknesses of cloth to make it more comfortable to sit on.”
- The quality of being thick (in consistency).
“Whip the cream until it reaches a good thickness.”
- The property of being thick (slow to understand).
- 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”).
- 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.”