In boat racing or horse racing, a length is the distance from the front to the back of the boat or horse. You can talk about one boat or horse being one or more lengths in front of or behind another. Harvard won by four lengths
The quality or state of being long, in space or time; extent; duration; as, some sea birds are remarkable for the length of their wings; he was tired by the length of the sermon, and the length of his walk
A length of rope, cloth, wood, or other material is a piece of it that is intended to be used for a particular purpose or that exists in a particular situation. a 30ft length of rope You can hang lengths of fabric behind the glass
Detail or amplification; unfolding; continuance as, to pursue a subject to a great length
Literally means the length of time you can still taste the wine after you have swallowed it
size of the gap between two places; "the distance from New York to Chicago"; "he determined the length of the shortest line segment joining the two points"
n (of a sequence) the number of elements in the sequence (Note that if the sequence is a vector with a fill pointer, its length is the same as the fill pointer even though the total allocated size of the vector might be larger )
A portion of space or of time considered as measured by its length; often in the plural
A single piece or subdivision of a series, or of a number of long pieces which may be connected together; as, a length of pipe; a length of fence
a section of something that is long and narrow; "a length of timber"; "a length of tubing" the linear extent in space from one end to the other; the longest horizontal dimension of something that is fixed in place; "the length of the table was 5 feet" the property of being the extent of something from beginning to end; "the editor limited the length of my article to 500 words
If someone does something at length, they do it after a long period of time. At length my father went into the house
Length is an evaluation of how far a ball will travel before it begins to hook Length does not include skid produced by lane conditioner, additional fine sanding, or the use of "liquid sandpaper" polishes BTM uses the Danger Zone as a control ball and it has an assigned length value of 2 on a scale of 10