Definition of breadth Breadth

/bɹɛˈdθ/ - [bredth] - breadth

We found 12 definitions of breadth from 8 different sources.

What does breadth mean?

Noun Plural: breadths
breadth - the capacity to understand a broad range of topics; "a teacher must have a breadth of knowledge of the subject"; "a man distinguished by the largeness and scope of his views"
		comprehensiveness, largeness
		intelligence the operation of gathering information about an enemy
breadth - the extent of something from side to side
		width
		dimension the magnitude of something in a particular direction (especially length or width or height)
		wide, broad not on target; "the kick was wide"; "the arrow was wide of the mark"; "a claim that was wide of the truth"
		narrow limited in size or scope; "the narrow sense of a word"
		broadness, wideness the property of being wide; having great width
		beam long thick piece of wood or metal or concrete, etc., used in construction

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breadth (Noun)
The extent or measure of how broad or wide something is.
breadth (Noun)
A piece of fabric of standard width.
breadth (Noun)
Scope or range, especially of knowledge or skill.
breadth (Noun)
Graph theory the length of the longest path between two vertices on a graph.

breadth (a.)
Distance from side to side of any surface or thing; measure across, or at right angles to the length; width.

breadth
bredth, n. extent from side to side: width: a style in painting in which details are strictly subordinated to the harmony of the whole composition.—adv. Breadth′ways, broadside on. [A.S. brǽdu; Ger. briete. See Broad.]

breadth
largeur, the measure of a ship from side to side in any particular place: it is usually distinguished into extreme-breadth, ligne du fort, main-breadth, and top-timber-breadth. See the explanation of the plane of projection, in the article Naval ARCHITECTURE.
As the sides of the ship are formed by a variety of ribs, called timbers, and the areas of those timbers being of different breadths above and below, it is necessary to distinguish them in the construction, in order to form their several curves, and fix the corresponding pieces with more accuracy and precision. The part of every timber which encloses the greatest space from the middle-line of the ship’s length, is therefore called the main-breadth; and the distance between the upper-part of the same timber and the middle-line of the ship’s length, is called the top-timber-breadth.
As the ship is also broader at the midship-frame than in any other point of her length, the distance between her sides in the main-breadth of that timber, is called the extreme-breadth of the ship.

breadth
The measure of a vessel from side to side in any particular place athwart-ships. (See STRAIGHT OF BREADTH, HEIGHT OF BREADTH, TOP-TIMBER BREADTH, &c.)--Breadth of beam, extreme breadth of a ship.