Usually means: Distance measured between two points.
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General (28 matching dictionaries)
  1. length: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. -length, length, length: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. length: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. length: Collins English Dictionary
  5. length: Vocabulary.com
  6. Length, length: Wordnik
  7. -length, length: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. length: Wiktionary
  9. -length, length: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. length: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. length: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Length, length: Dictionary.com
  13. length: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. length: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Length (disambiguation), Length (horse racing), Length (phonetics), Length: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Length: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. length: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. length: Rhymezone
  19. length: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. length: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. Length: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  22. length: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. length: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
  24. length: Dictionary/thesaurus
  25. length: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
  26. length: Free Dictionary

Art (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. length: ArtLex Lexicon of Visual Art Terminology
  2. English-Chinese Dictionary of Graphic Communications (Big 5) (No longer online)
  3. Epicurus.com Beer Glossary (No longer online)
  4. Epicurus.com Wine Glossary (No longer online)
  5. Linguistic Glossary (No longer online)

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. length: Legal dictionary
  2. length: Financial dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. length: Encyclopedia

Medicine (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. ABTA Brain Tumor Patients (No longer online)
  3. Length: Merck Manuals
  4. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  5. length: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. length: Idioms

Science (7 matching dictionaries)
  1. Length: LITHICS-NET's Glossary of Lithics Terminology
  2. Length: Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics
  3. Length: Eric Weisstein's World of Physics
  4. length: MATH SPOKEN HERE!
  5. length, length, length, length: PlanetMath Encyclopedia
  6. How Many? A Dictionary of Units of Measurement (No longer online)
  7. length: Graph Theory

Slang (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. length: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. length: English slang and colloquialisms used in the United Kingdom
  3. length: Urban Dictionary

Sports (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Squash Glossary (No longer online)
  2. Length: Sports Definitions

Tech (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  2. Beer & Brewing Terminology (No longer online)
  3. Woodworking Glossary (No longer online)
  4. National Weather Service Glossary (No longer online)
  5. Wine Taster's Glossary (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  The distance measured along the longest dimension of an object.
noun:  duration.
noun:  (horse racing) The length of a horse, used to indicate the distance between horses at the end of a race.
noun:  (mathematics) Distance between the two ends of a line segment.
noun:  (cricket) The distance down the pitch that the ball bounces on its way to the batsman.
noun:  (figuratively) Total extent.
noun:  Part of something that is long; a physical piece of something.
noun:  (theater) A unit of script length, comprising 42 lines.
noun:  (bridge) The number of cards held in a particular suit.
verb:  (obsolete) To lengthen.

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