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発音

• IPA: /bɹɛdθ/, /bɹɛtθ/, /bɹɛθ/
• 韻: -ɛdθ

名詞

breadth (countable and uncountable, plural breadths)

1. The extent or measure of how broad or wide something is; width.

   The breadth of the corridor is 4.5 metres.

   • 1873, Charles Tomlinson, chapter III, in Winter in the Arctic Regions and Summer in the Antarctic Regions‎, London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, →OCLC, page 122:

     The sledges of the Esquimaux are of large size, varying from six and a half to nine and even eleven feet in length, and from eighteen inches to two feet in breadth.

2. A piece of fabric of standard width.
3. Scope or range, especially of knowledge or skill.

   expand one’s breadth of marketing

   • 2023 July 24, Chris Eberhart, “NY police used AI to track drivers on highways as attorney questions legality”, in Fox News‎, archived from the original on 28 August 2023:

     "The breadth of this LPR system is spectacular and amounts to a warrantless search."

4. (art) A style in painting in which details are strictly subordinated to the harmony of the whole composition.
5. (graph theory) The length of the longest path between two vertices in a graph.

同意語

• (extent or measure of how broad something is): width
• (piece of fabric of standard width):
• (scope or range): extent, range, scope, size

派生語