If you measure the distance of an object from side to side, you are measuring the object’s breadth: “Theodore measured the breadth of the table before buying it to make sure it would fit in his small kitchen.”
Distance from side to side of any surface or thing; measure across, or at right angles to the length; width.
Noun
the extent of something from side to side
Noun
an ability to understand a broad range of topics; "a teacher must have a breadth of knowledge of the subject"
a.
Distance from side to side of any surface or thing;
measure across, or at right angles to the length; width.
Breadth
Breadth of coloring is a prominent character in the painting of all great masters.
Distance from side to side of any surface or thing; measure across, or at right angles to the length; width.
Usage Examples
Old age, calm, expanded, broad with the haughty breadth of the universe, old age flowing free with the delicious near-by freedom of death.
If you go and talk to most people, they mean well but they don't have much of a breadth on education, of knowledge of understanding what the real issues are and therefore they listen to pundits on television who tell them what they are supposed to think and they keep repeating that until pretty soon they say, 'Oh, well that must be true.'
The humanitarian lays stress almost solely upon breadth of knowledge and sympathy.
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Other Usage ExamplesOrganizations endure, however, in proportion to the breadth of the morality by which they are governed. Thus the endurance of organization depends upon the quality of leadership and that quality derives from the breadth of the morality upon which it rests.
There is nothing more tragic than to find an individual bogged down in the length of life, devoid of breadth.
We must seek the loving-kindness of God in all the breadth and open-air of common life.
For globalization to work for America, it must work for working people. We should measure the success of our economy by the breadth of our middle class, and the scope of opportunity offered to the poorest child to climb into that middle class.
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