breadth

/bɹɛdθ/ noun C1

The extent or measure of how broad or wide something is; width. (countable, uncountable) · The breadth of the corridor is 4.5 metres.
A piece of fabric of standard width. (countable, uncountable)
Scope or range, especially of knowledge or skill. (countable, uncountable) · expand one’s breadth of marketing
A style in painting in which details are strictly subordinated to the harmony of the whole composition. (countable, uncountable)
The length of the longest path between two vertices in a graph. (countable, uncountable)

Plural breadths

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The inner one was still there, and lay forty feet in breadth, though now only a few feet in depth, round the whole house.

The Valley of Fear, p. 22 · C1

Breadth of view, my dear Mr.

The Valley of Fear, p. 82 · C1

That was the breadth of a puddle on the garden walk which he had evidently walked across.

A Study in Scarlet, p. 37 · B2

So tall was he that his hat actually brushed the cross bar of the doorway, and his breadth seemed to span it across from side to side.

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, p. 50 · B2

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