Usually means: Unit of measurement, one twelfth foot.
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We found 46 dictionaries that define the word inch:

General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. inch: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. inch, inch: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. inch, inch: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. inch: Collins English Dictionary
  5. inch: Vocabulary.com
  6. Inch, inch: Wordnik
  7. inch: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. inch: Wiktionary
  9. inch: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. inch: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. inch: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. inch: Dictionary.com
  13. inch (1), inch (2): Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. inch: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Inch (band), Inch (disambiguation), Inch, The Inch: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Inch: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. inch: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. inch: Rhymezone
  19. inch, inch (de): AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. inch: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. inch: Free Dictionary
  22. inch: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. inch: Dictionary/thesaurus
  24. inch: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. inch: ArtLex Lexicon of Visual Art Terminology

Business (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Construction Term Glossary (No longer online)
  2. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  3. Inch: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. inch: Encyclopedia

Medicine (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Inch: MedTerms.com Medical Dictionary
  2. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  3. GASTROLAB Digestive Dictionary (No longer online)
  4. Inch: Drug Medical Dictionary

Miscellaneous (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. INCH: Acronym Finder
  2. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)
  3. inch: Idioms

Science (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Inch: Eric Weisstein's World of Physics
  2. Inch: Material Safety Data Sheets HyperGlossary
  3. inch: MATH SPOKEN HERE!
  4. How Many? A Dictionary of Units of Measurement (No longer online)

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. inch, inch: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. inch: Urban Dictionary

Tech (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Lake and Water Word Glossary (No longer online)
  2. Rane Professional Audio Reference (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  An English unit of length equal to 1/12 of a foot or 2.54 cm, conceived as roughly the width of a thumb.
noun:  (figuratively) Any very short distance.
noun:  Any of various similar units of length in other traditional systems of measurement.
noun:  (meteorology) A depth of one inch on the ground, used as a measurement of rainfall.
noun:  A depth of one inch in a glass, used as a rough measurement of alcoholic beverages.
verb:  (intransitive, followed by a preposition) To advance very slowly, or by a small amount (in a particular direction).
verb:  To drive by inches, or small degrees.
verb:  To deal out by inches; to give sparingly.
noun:  (Scotland, Ireland) A small island; an islet.
noun:  (Scotland, Ireland) A meadow, pasture, field, or haugh.
adjective:  (Hong Kong, colloquial) cocky and cheeky
verb:  (Hong Kong, colloquial) to burn (to insult); to speak in a cocky and cheeky manner
noun:  A town in County Wexford, Ireland.

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