Length is a measure of distance. In the International System of Quantities, length is a quantity with dimension distance. In most systems of measurement...

The focal length of an optical system is a measure of how strongly the system converges or diverges light; it is the inverse of the system's optical power...

Length overall (LOA, o/a, o.a. or oa) is the maximum length of a vessel's hull measured parallel to the waterline. This length is important while docking...

A vessel's length at the waterline (abbreviated to L.W.L) is the length of a ship or boat at the level where it sits in the water (the waterline). The...

Arc length is the distance between two points along a section of a curve. Determining the length of an irregular arc segment by approximating the arc segment...

In physics, the attenuation length or absorption length is the distance λ into a material when the probability has dropped to 1/e that a particle has...

and electrolytes, the Debye length λ D {\displaystyle \lambda _{\rm {D}}} (Debye radius or Debye–Hückel screening length), is a measure of a charge carrier's...

ichthyology, including taxonomy and fishery biology. Standard length (SL) is the length of a fish measured from the tip of the snout to the posterior...

A feature film or feature-length film (often abbreviated to feature), also called a theatrical film, is a narrative film (motion picture or "movie") with...

have distinctive length. Among the languages that have distinctive length, there are only a few that have both distinctive vowel length and distinctive...

Look up length or breadth in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Length in its basic meaning is the long dimension of an object. Length may also refer to:...

The overall length (OAL) of an ammunition cartridge is a measurement from the base of the brass shell casing to the tip of the bullet, seated into the...

In typography, line length is the width of a block of typeset text, usually measured in units of length like inches or points or in characters per line...

Arm's Length are a Canadian emo band from Quinte West, Ontario. The group formed in 2018 with Allen Steinberg on guitar and vocals, and brothers Jeremy...

Reciprocal length or inverse length is a quantity or measurement used in several branches of science and mathematics, defined as the reciprocal of length. Common...

horse length, or simply length, is a unit of measurement for the length of a horse from nose to tail, approximately 8 feet (2.4 m). The length is commonly...

the Sun (which is parallel with the direction of sunlight), and so the length of the daytime period varies from one point on the planet to another. Additionally...

Look up path length in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Path length can refer to: Distance, the total distance an object travels dependent on its path...

A unit of length refers to any arbitrarily chosen and accepted reference standard for measurement of length. The most common units in modern use are the...

Human penises vary in size on a number of measures, including length and circumference when flaccid and erect. Besides the natural variability of human...

m) is the base unit of length in the International System of Units (SI). Since 2019, the metre has been defined as the length of the path travelled by...

The zero-length launch system or zero-length take-off system (ZLL, ZLTO, ZEL, ZELL) was a method whereby jet fighters and attack aircraft could be near-vertically...

Run-length encoding (RLE) is a form of lossless data compression in which runs of data (consecutive occurrences of the same data value) are stored as a...

Length time bias (or length bias) is an overestimation of survival duration due to the relative excess of cases detected that are asymptomatically slowly...

In algebra, the length of a module over a ring R {\displaystyle R} is a generalization of the dimension of a vector space which measures its size. page...

measurement of the river length between source and mouth, that determine the precise meaning of "river length". As a result, the length measurements of many...

In coding theory, a variable-length code is a code which maps source symbols to a variable number of bits. The equivalent concept in computer science is...

Proper length or rest length is the length of an object in the object's rest frame. The measurement of lengths is more complicated in the theory of relativity...

The arm's length principle (ALP) is the condition or the fact that the parties of a transaction are independent and on an equal footing. Such a transaction...

Contour length is a term used in molecular physics. The contour length of a polymer chain (a big molecule consisting of many similar smaller molecules)...