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  • n  the linear extent in space from one end to the other; the longest dimension of something that is fixed in place
    the length of the table was 5 feet
  • n  continuance in time
    he complained about the length of time required
  • n  the property of being the extent of something from beginning to end
    the editor limited the length of my article to 500 words
  • n  size of the gap between two places
    he determined the length of the shortest line segment joining the two points
  • n  a section of something that is long and narrow
    a length of timber
    a length of tubing

  • Both justices spoke at length in their Senate confirmation hearings about the importance of abiding by precedents even if they would have voted the other way had they been .
  • Six-tenths of an inch is the difference in length between king-size cigarettes and the 100-mm.
  • Watchmen is a graphic novela book-length comic book with ambitions above its stationstarring a ragbag of bizarre, damaged, retired superheroes: the paunchy, melancholic Nite .
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