thickness

English

Thickness gauge

Measuring the thickness of a guitar pick with calipers. The measured thickness is 2.0 mm.

Etymology

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”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈθɪknəs/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Rhymes: -ɪknəs
• Hyphenation: thick‧ness

Noun

thickness (countable and uncountable, plural thicknesses)

1. (uncountable) The property of being thick (in dimension).
2. (uncountable, countable) 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.

3. (countable) A layer.

   We upholstered the seat with three thicknesses of cloth to make it more comfortable to sit on.

4. (uncountable) The quality of being thick (in consistency).

   Whip the cream until it reaches a good thickness.

5. (uncountable, informal) The property of being thick (slow to understand).
6. (graph theory, countable) The minimum number of planar subgraphs which a given graph can decompose into.

Synonyms

• (the property of being thick in dimension): fatness
• (measure): depth
• (layer): layer, stratum
• (in consistency): density, viscosity
• (property of being stupid): denseness, slowness, stupidity, thickheadedness

Antonyms

• (antonym(s) of “in consistency”): fluidity, liquidity, runniness, thinness, wateriness
• (antonym(s) of “property of being stupid”): mental acuity, mental agility, quick-wittedness, sharpness

Derived terms

• dry film thickness
• half-value thickness

 

Translations

property of being thick in dimension

• Arabic: سَمَاكَة (ar) f (samāka)
• Armenian: հաստություն (hy) (hastutʻyun)
• Belarusian: таўшчыня́ f (taŭščynjá)
• Bulgarian: дебелина́ (bg) f (debeliná)
• Catalan: espessor f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 厚度 (zh) (hòudù)

• Czech: tloušťka (cs) f
• Dutch: dikte (nl) f
• Finnish: paksuus (fi)
• French: épaisseur (fr) f, grosseur (fr) f
• Galician: grosura f
• German: Dicke (de) f
• Greek: πάχος (el) n (páchos)

  Ancient: πάχος n (pákhos)

• Hungarian: vastagság (hu)
• Irish: tiús m
• Italian: spessore (it) m, grossezza (it) f
• Japanese: 厚み (ja) (あつみ, atsumi)
• Korean: 두께 (ko) (dukke)
• Kurdish:

  Central Kurdish: ئەستووری (estûrî)

  Northern Kurdish: stûrî (ku)

• Lao: ຄວາມຫນາ (khuām nā)
• Latin: crassitūdō f
• Latvian: biezums m, resnums
• Macedonian: дебелина f (debelina)
• Malay: ketebalan (ms)
• Marathi: जाडी (mr) f (jāḍī)
• Occitan: espessor (oc)
• Polish: grubość (pl) f
• Portuguese: grossura (pt) f, espessura (pt) f
• Romanian: grosime (ro) f
• Russian: толщина́ (ru) f (tolščiná)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: дебљѝна f

  Roman: debljìna (sh) f

• Slovak: hrúbka f
• Slovene: debelina f
• Spanish: grosor (es) m, espesura (es) f
• Thai: ความหนา (th) (kwaam-nǎa)
• Ukrainian: товщина́ f (tovščyná)
• Vietnamese: dày (vi)

measure

• Armenian: հաստություն (hy) (hastutʻyun)
• Bulgarian: дебелина (bg) (debelina)
• Finnish: paksuus (fi)
• French: épaisseur (fr) f
• Galician: grosura f, grosor m
• Georgian: please add this translation if you can
• German: Dicke (de) f
• Greek:

  Ancient: πάχος n (pákhos)

• Irish: tiús m
• Japanese: 厚さ (ja) (あつさ, atsusa), 厚み (ja) (あつみ, atsumi)
• Latin: crassitūdō f
• Luxembourgish: Déckt f
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: tykkelse m, tjukkelse

  Nynorsk: tjukn (nn) f, tjukkleik (nn) m

• Russian: толщина́ (ru) f (tolščiná)
• Spanish: grosor (es) m

layer — see layer

in consistency

• Bulgarian: гъстота (bg) f (gǎstota)
• German: Dicke (de) f
• Japanese: 濃さ (こさ, kosa), 濃度 (ja) (のうど, nōdo), とろみ (toromi)
• Marathi: घट्टपणा m (ghaṭṭapṇā)
• Russian: густота́ (ru) f (gustotá)
• Telugu: చిక్కదనము (te) (cikkadanamu), చిక్కన (te) (cikkana)
• Turkish: yoğunluk (tr)

informal: property of being stupid

• Japanese: 鈍さ (にぶさ, nibusa)
• Spanish: torpeza (es) f

Verb

thickness (third-person singular simple present thicknesses, present participle thicknessing, simple past and past participle thicknessed)

1. (transitive) To trim (wood) to a consistent thickness using a thickness planer.
   • 2003, Garrett Hack, The Handplane Book, page 143:

     Even if the parts are thicknessed by machine, check for and plane out any cup with a bench plane.

Further reading

• Thickness on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• Nitschkes, shitnecks, tschinkes