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finger's breadth

finger's breadth is the alternative form of fingerbreadth.

Meaning of fingerbreadth

Noun

fingerbreadth (plural fingerbreadths)

  1. A (usually approximate and informal) unit of measurement based upon the radial width of the human finger.

Forms of finger's breadth

pluralfinger's breadths

Questions about finger's breadth

What is finger's breadth the alternative form of?
Finger's breadth is the alternative form of fingerbreadth.

Words near finger's breadth in the dictionary

  1. finger weavings
  2. finger width
  3. finger widths
  4. finger work
  5. finger wrestling
  6. finger's breadth
  7. finger's-breadth
  8. finger's-breadths
  9. finger-and-toe
  10. finger-bang
  11. finger-bar

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Adapted from Wiktionary: finger's breadth (page history and authors); fingerbreadth (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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