Length Measures and Scales

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

Chapter Chapter 27 in Encyclopedia of Distances, 2016, pp 613-627 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 its linear extent, while the height is the vertical extent, and width (or breadth) is the side-to-side distance at 90∘ to the length, wideness. The depth is the distance downward, distance inward, deepness, profundity, drop.

Keywords: Black Hole; Planck Length; Astronomical Unit; Oort Cloud; Orbital Distance (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-662-52844-0_27

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