Associations to the word «Thickness»

Wiktionary

THICKNESS, noun. (uncountable) The property of being thick (in dimension).
THICKNESS, noun. (uncountable) A measure of how thick (in dimension) something is.
THICKNESS, noun. (countable) A layer.
THICKNESS, noun. (uncountable) The quality of being thick (in consistency).
THICKNESS, noun. (uncountable) (informal) The property of being thick (slow to understand).

Dictionary definition

THICKNESS, noun. The dimension through an object as opposed to its length or width.
THICKNESS, noun. Indistinct articulation; "judging from the thickness of his speech he had been drinking heavily".
THICKNESS, noun. Used of a line or mark.
THICKNESS, noun. Resistance to flow.

Wise words

Language is a process of free creation; its laws and principles are fixed, but the manner in which the principles of generation are used is free and infinitely varied. Even the interpretation and use of words involves a process of free creation.
Noam Chomsky