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Etymology

From Middle English bredthe, alteration (due to nouns ending in -th: length, strength, wrength, etc.) of brede ("breadth"; see bread). Equivalent to broad + -th (abstract nominal suffix). Cognate with Scots bredth (“breadth”), Saterland Frisian Bratte (“breadth”), West Frisian breedte (“breadth”), Dutch breedte (“breadth”), German Low German Breddte, Breddt (“breadth”), German Breite (“breadth”), Danish bredde (“breadth”), Norwegian Bokmål bredde (“breadth”), Swedish bredd (“breadth”).

inherited from bredthe

Definitions

1
The extent or measure of how broad or wide something is
The extent or measure of how broad or wide something is; width.
- The breadth of the corridor is 4.5 metres.
- The sledges of the Esquimaux are of large size, varying from six and a half to nine and even eleven feet in length, and from eighteen inches to two feet in breadth.
A piece of fabric of standard width.
3
Scope or range, especially of knowledge or skill.
- expand one’s breadth of marketing
- "The breadth of this LPR system is spectacular and amounts to a warrantless search."
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1. A style in painting in which details are strictly subordinated to the harmony of the…
  A style in painting in which details are strictly subordinated to the harmony of the whole composition.
2. The length of the longest path between two vertices in a graph.

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Derived

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Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at breadth. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

A definitional loop anchored at breadth. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

9 hops · closes at breadth

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.