Length Measures and Scales

Michel Marie Deza and Elena Deza
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Michel Marie Deza: École Normale Supérieure
Elena Deza: Moscow State Pedagogical University

Chapter Chapter 27 in Encyclopedia of Distances, 2013, pp 529-543 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract The term length has many meanings: distance, extent, linear measure, span, reach, end, limit, etc.; for example, the length of a train, a meeting, a book, a trip, a shirt, a vowel, a proof. The length of an object is the distance between its ends, its linear extent, while the height is the vertical extent, and width (or breadth) is the distance from one side to the other at right angles to the length. The depth is the distance downward, distance inward, deepness, vertical extent, drop.

Keywords: Astronomical Unit; Oort Cloud; Loop Quantum Cosmology; Gravitational Radius; Orbital Distance (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2013
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-30958-8_27

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