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The dimension nobody measures until the couch doesn't fit through the door.
means The measurement of how far something extends from side to side.
from Width is a fairly late addition to English, built in the 1600s from 'wide' plus the suffix '-th' (the same pattern that gave us depth from deep, and warmth from warm). Before that, English just made do with 'wideness.' So width isn't ancient — it's a tidy, somewhat artificial coinage, made on the spot because people needed a noun to match 'wide' the way 'long' already had 'length.'
- math default
- In geometry, width is the shorter of two dimensions, by convention.
- screen specs
- TVs list width first, which is why none fit your wall.
- CSS trap
- Width 100 percent can still overflow thanks to padding and borders.
- etymology
- From Old English wid, meaning wide, same root as wide.