Used in a Sentence

lengths

Definitions, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for lengths.

Editorial note

We've also seen around the world that governments are ready to great lengths to protect their surveillance abilities.

Examples15
Definitions4
Parts of speech1

Quick take

The distance measured along the longest dimension of an object.

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of lengths gathered in one view.

noun

The distance measured along the longest dimension of an object.

noun

Duration.

noun

Part of something that is long; a physical piece of something.

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for lengths.

noun

The distance measured along the longest dimension of an object.

noun

Duration.

noun

Part of something that is long; a physical piece of something.

noun

(figuratively) Total extent.

Example sentences

1

We've also seen around the world that governments are ready to great lengths to protect their surveillance abilities.

2

There are some relative lengths and offsets, but they're going to be 8 or 16 bit values.

3

And yet you'll find no shortage of fanboys who'll go to great lengths about how great the system actually is.

4

The lengths they've gone to to hide this is proportional to how bad it will be for the general public.

5

They think Apple has gone to great lengths just to implement their end-to-end iMessage encryption...

6

It's amazing at what lengths people go with the theoretical arguments and personal conjecture.

7

There are standard periods depending on how long you have worked there but after a probational period, the contract lengths are legal.

8

The emails showed that a group of very influencial scientists were going to great lengths to prevent critical review and access to data.

9

Read Raymond Chen's Old New Thing blog for some anecdotes about the amazing lengths they would go internally to keep old software working.

10

But I'd love to know your use case and what you'd use longer video lengths for.

11

While this doesn't render response sizing attacks completely useless, it makes a would-be attacker's job much more difficult due to the highly variable response lengths.

12

Do you mean to say that there are plenty of fanboys who will go to great lengths about how great the AppStore review process it, that is to say that it is without flaws?

Quote examples

1

You parse strings, join strings, replace characters in strings, trim, find lengths and match regexes on strings ("unicodes").

2

Python goes to such extreme lengths to be (seen as) pragmatic that I can't help but conclude that "Pragmatism has an ideology all of its own".

3

Besides, there's the problem of having to draw a line between trivial and non-trivial code (e.g., "is string concatenation trivial?", "but it's O(n+m) on the lengths of the strings!", etc).

Frequently asked questions

Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.

How do you use lengths in a sentence?

We've also seen around the world that governments are ready to great lengths to protect their surveillance abilities.

What does lengths mean?

The distance measured along the longest dimension of an object.

What part of speech is lengths?

lengths is commonly used as noun.