thickness
Syllables: thick·ness/ˈθɪknəs/
thickness noun: the property of being thick (in dimension).
Noun
thickness (countable and uncountable, plural thicknesses)
- The property of being thick (in dimension).
- A measure of how thick (in dimension) something is.
- The thickness of the Earth's crust varies from two to 70 kilometres.
- Guitar picks come in different thicknesses.
- Synonyms:
- depth
- A layer.
- We upholstered the seat with three thicknesses of cloth to make it more comfortable to sit on.
- The quality of being thick (in consistency).
- Whip the cream until it reaches a good thickness.
- The property of being thick (slow to understand).
- The minimum number of planar subgraphs which a given graph can decompose into.
Verb
thickness (third-person singular simple present thicknesses, present participle thicknessing, simple past and past participle thicknessed)
- To trim (wood) to a consistent thickness using a thickness planer.
- Even if the parts are thicknessed by machine, check for and plane out any cup with a bench plane.2003, Garrett Hack, The Handplane Book, page 143
thickness meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu
thickness in Hindi
- property of being thick in dimension
- मोटाई moṭāī
thickness in Tamil
- தடிமன், பருமன், கனபரிமாணம், தடித்த, பருத்த
thickness in Marathi
- property of being thick in dimension
- जाडी jāḍī
- in consistency
- घट्टपणा ghaṭṭapṇā
thickness in Urdu
- دل, حجم, موٹائی, ضخامت
More languagesFewer languages
- thickness in Bengali
- ঘনত্ব ghontto
- thickness in Telugu
- చిక్కదనము cikkadanamu, చిక్కన cikkana
- thickness in Malayalam
- വണ്ണം vaṇṇaṁ
- thickness in Kannada
- ದಪ್ಪ dappa
- thickness in Punjabi
- ਮੋਟਾਈ
- thickness in Gujarati
- જાડાઈ jāḍāī
- thickness in Nepali
- मोटाई
- thickness in Arabic
- سَمَاكَة samāka
- thickness in Malay
- ketebalan
- thickness in Thai
- ความหนา kwaam-nǎa
- thickness in Vietnamese
- dày
Examples of thickness in a sentence
- it was found that without the potash the process gave as good a film as with it, but took very much longer to deposit the silver of a sufficient thickness1892, Royal Astronomical Society, Memoirs of the Royal Astronomical Society, volumes 50-51, Blackwell Scientific, page 162:
- The newest form of gold created in a lab is the thickness of two atoms, according to a new study.2019 August 6, Ashley Strickland, “Scientists just created the world’s thinnest gold and it’s two atoms thick”, in CNN:
Synonyms of thickness
Antonyms
- thinness
- fluidity
- liquidity
- runniness
- wateriness
- mental acuity
- mental agility
- quick-wittedness
- sharpness
Forms of thickness
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | thicknesses |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | thicknesses |
| present participle | thicknessing |
| past participle | thicknessed |
| past | thicknessed |
Origin of thickness
From Middle English thikkenesse, thiknesse, from Old English þicnes (“thickness, viscosity, density, hardness; obscurity, cloud, darkness; thicket; depth, a thick body, anything thick or heavy”), from Proto-West Germanic *þikkwīnassī (“thickness”), equivalent to thick + -ness. Cognate with West Frisian tsjokkens (“thickness”), Old High German dickinessī, dikkinissi, diknissi (“thickness, density”). Eclipsed non-native Middle English crassitude (“thickness”) from Latin crassitūdō (“thickness”).
Words formed from thickness
Phrases with thickness
Words that rhyme with thickness
Questions about thickness
- What does thickness mean?
- Thickness means the property of being thick (in dimension).
- What is thickness in Hindi?
- Thickness in Hindi is मोटाई (moṭāī). See Thickness meaning in Hindi.
- How do you use thickness in a sentence?
- it was found that without the potash the process gave as good a film as with it, but took very much longer to deposit the silver of a sufficient thickness
- What part of speech is thickness?
- Thickness can be a noun or a verb.
- How do you pronounce thickness?
- Thickness is pronounced /ˈθɪknəs/.
- What is the plural of thickness?
- The plural of thickness is thicknesses.
Words near thickness in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: thickness (page history and authors); thickness (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); thickness (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); ঘনত্ব (Bengali) (page history and authors); വണ്ണം (Malayalam) (page history and authors); ದಪ್ಪ (Kannada) (page history and authors); thickness (Punjabi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); જાડાઈ (Gujarati) (page history and authors); thickness (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). 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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