widths

noun

plural of width
as in scopes
an area over which activity, capacity, or influence extends surprised by the width of his power and influence in the oil business

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Recent Examples of widths The shoes come in a range of fun color combinations and sizes 5–16, including half sizes and wide widths. — Mia Huelsbeck, PEOPLE, 18 July 2026 Accessibility All areas of the hotel are accessible by wheelchair, with compliant door widths. — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 8 July 2026 From that glossy start emerges an elaborate, colossal bun composed of braids in varying widths—from pencil-thin plaits woven around the base to chunkier folds making up the lion’s share of the height-enhancing sculpture. — Marci Robin, Allure, 29 June 2026 Like other Birkenstock shoes, its strap is adjustable, but the shoe also comes in two widths—one for narrow feet and one for wider feet. — Jasmine Gomez, Travel + Leisure, 26 June 2026 These priority zones focus on pedestrian traffic by installing crosswalks at all intersections, banning right turns on red lights, increasing crossing time, shading sidewalks, lowering speed limits and reducing driving lane widths. — Amaia Gavica, Miami Herald, 25 June 2026 Once the ramp reopens, traffic lane widths will be reduced, officials said. — Aurora Beacon-News, Chicago Tribune, 16 June 2026 The North Star should be about three of your fist-widths at arm’s length to the lower right of Dubhe and Merak. — Mike Lynch, Twin Cities, 14 June 2026 Others, like a rotating display, have slots of different heights and widths to store a variety of items. — Bestreviews, Mercury News, 26 May 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for widths
  1. scopes
  2. realms
  3. extents
  4. ranges
  5. dimensions
  6. amplitudes
Noun
  • As marketing departments respond to these market changes, procurement executives’ scopes are evolving in parallel.
    — Michelle Douglas, Forbes.com, 17 July 2026
  • Avian scopes are typically below 20, and so are the scopes for fishes.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 22 June 2026
Definition of scopes
Noun
  • Alt text and image description are not meant to close the book on the definitive, but to open it onto the vast realms of meaning-making.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 22 July 2026
  • Ackman has become more ideological, expanding his crusades into cultural and academic realms.
    — Jeff John Roberts, Fortune, 20 July 2026
Definition of realms
Noun
  • Among the concert recordings are three full concerts being released for the very first time and several more full recordings of shows that have been excerpted, to varying extents, for past releases.
    — Jazz Monroe, Pitchfork, 25 June 2026
  • Hunt, Avantika, and Angus are especially good as overgrown kids trying, to varying extents, to hide their softness beneath ambition.
    — Judy Berman, Time, 1 June 2026
Definition of extents
Noun
  • Small drones used in swarms generally have much shorter ranges.
    — Atharva Gosavi, Interesting Engineering, 21 July 2026
  • Along with being for storage or warming food, Angelesco notes older gas ranges often put a broiler drawer in this spot.
    — Ashley Chalmers, The Spruce, 21 July 2026
Definition of ranges
Noun
  • By moving optical structures into three dimensions, researchers can create denser chip designs, reduce signal interference, and enable functions that are difficult to achieve with two-dimensional architectures.
    — Bojan Stojkovski, Interesting Engineering, 19 July 2026
  • Mudlarks often linger on the therapeutic and quasi-mystical dimensions of their visits to the river.
    — Sam Knight, New Yorker, 17 July 2026
Definition of dimensions
Noun
  • This hardware is used to test different combinations of wavelengths and amplitudes during calibration.
    — John Timmer, ArsTechnica, 10 July 2026
  • But the physicist Nima Arkani-Hamed and collaborators realized that there were more compact ways to understand these scattering amplitudes.
    — Quanta Magazine, Quanta Magazine, 25 June 2026
Definition of amplitudes

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