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

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...

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...

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...

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...

Length measurement, distance measurement, or range measurement (ranging) refers to the many ways in which length, distance, or range can be measured. The...

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

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...

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...

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...

permitted. Under the Convention, the duration of copyright depends on the length of the author's life. Berne specifies that copyright exists a minimum of...

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:...

magnitude for different lengths. To help compare different orders of magnitude, the following list describes various lengths between 1.6 × 10 − 35 {\displaystyle...

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...

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...

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...

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...

In electrical engineering, electrical length is a dimensionless parameter equal to the physical length of an electrical conductor such as a cable or wire...

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...

In physics, coherence length is the propagation distance over which a coherent wave (e.g. an electromagnetic wave) maintains a specified degree of coherence...

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...

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...

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...

A cable length or length of cable is a nautical unit of measure equal to one tenth of a nautical mile or approximately 100 fathoms. Owing to anachronisms...

In aviation, the flight length or flight distance refers to the distance of a flight. Aircraft do not necessarily follow the great-circle distance, but...

In molecular geometry, bond length or bond distance is defined as the average distance between nuclei of two bonded atoms in a molecule. It is a transferable...

linguistics, vowel length is the perceived length of a vowel sound: the corresponding physical measurement is duration. In some languages vowel length is an important...