Phrase Hound found 35 phrases and 31 compound words that contain lengths. The most common are listed below. Open lengths in the live search for definitions, filters, and the full list.
Phrases 35
- go to great lengthsTo make a major effort; to be very careful when doing something, especially to an extreme or excessive degree.
- Planck lengthsplural of Planck length: A unit of length, believed to be the scale at which quantum gravity effects become significant, that is defined in terms of the speed of light, the gravitational constant and the reduced Planck's constant, namely …
- goes to great lengthsthird-person singular simple present indicative of go to great lengths: To make a major effort; to be very careful when doing something, especially to an extreme or excessive degree.
- going to great lengthspresent participle and gerund of go to great lengths
- gone to great lengthspast participle of go to great lengths: To make a major effort; to be very careful when doing something, especially to an extreme or excessive degree.
- went to great lengthssimple past of go to great lengths
- after lengthsplural of after length: The shorter length of string between the bridge and the tailpiece of a stringed instrument, on the other side from that which is usually played.
- arc lengthsplural of arc length: The distance between two points on a curve.
- block lengthsplural of block length: The length (in bytes, characters, etc.) of a block of data.
- bond lengthsplural of bond length: The distance between a pair of atoms that are bonded together in a molecule
- cable lengthsplural of cable length: One tenth of a nautical mile.
- finger-lengthsplural of finger-length: The length of a finger (used as a measure).
- focal lengthsplural of focal length: A measure of how strongly an optical system converges or diverges light, the inverse of optical power. In the simple case of a single convex lens, it is the distance along the optical axis from the principal plane …
- full-lengthsplural of full-length: Not shortened; complete and uncut.
- good lengthsplural of good length: The area on a pitch considered to be the best place to pitch the ball in order to either get the batter out, or restrict them from scoring; the length at which the ball bounces just too far away for it to be …
- half-lengthsplural of half-length: Half the normal length.
- lengths overallplural of length overall: Length of a ship from bow to stern.
- path lengthsplural of path length: The number of edges traversed in a given path in a graph.
- read lengthsplural of read length: A length of nucleic acid that has been sequenced.
- screening lengthsplural of screening length: Distance from the source of a smoke screen to the point downwind where the background begins to become recognizable.
- whole-lengthsplural of whole-length: Depicting the whole figure.
- Hubble lengthsplural of Hubble length: A unit of distance in cosmology, defined as the speed of light multiplied by the Hubble time, and equivalent to 4,550 million parsecs or 14.4 billion light years.
- null path lengthsplural of null path length: The path length from a given node to its nearest descendant null node in a binary tree.
- roughness lengthsplural of roughness length: A parameter of some vertical wind profile equations that model the horizontal mean wind speed near the ground; in the log wind profile, it is equivalent to the height at which the wind speed theoretically …
- calibrated focal lengthsplural of calibrated focal length: An adjusted value of the equivalent focal length, so computed as to equalize the positive and negative values of distortion over the entire field used in a camera.
Compound words 31
- wavelengthsplural of wavelength: The length of a single cycle of a wave, as measured by the distance between one peak or trough of a wave and the next; it is often designated in physics as λ, and corresponds to the velocity of the wave divided by its …
- bondlengthsplural of bondlength: The distance between a pair of atoms that are bonded together in a molecule
- afterlengthsplural of afterlength: The shorter length of string between the bridge and the tailpiece of a stringed instrument, on the other side from that which is usually played.
- arclengthsplural of arclength: The length of an arc.
- armlengthsplural of armlength: The length of each arm of an interferometer
- bitlengthsplural of bitlength: The number of bits (binary digits) needed to represent a given value.
- blocklengthsplural of blocklength: The length (in bytes, characters, etc.) of a block of data.
- boatlengthsplural of boatlength: A distance equal to the length of a boat.
- boatslengthsplural of boatslength: A distance equal to the length of a boat.
- bodylengthsplural of bodylength: The length of a body