Size and Thickness

Size

Size noun - The total amount of measurable space or surface occupied by something.

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Thickness and size are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Thickness" instead a noun "Size".

Nearby Words: sized, sizing, sizeable

Thickness noun - The degree to which a fluid can resist flowing.

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Size and thickness are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Size" instead a noun "Thickness".

Nearby Words: thick, thicken, thickening, thickly

similar	similar size	similar thickness
comparable	comparable size	comparable thickness
right	right size	right thickness
certain	certain size	certain thickness
Other adjectives: average, considerable, relative, sheer, actual, incredible, unusual, greater, double, different, varying.

Particular favorites are "the thickness of a human hair" or some fraction of it; aircraft carriers for size or volume; and football fields, or "Los Angeles to {insert appropriate city}" for distance.

Source: Hiroshima as a Unit of Measure
If we choose numbers by, for example, marking a point on a ruler, then not only does the ruler only have a finite number of atoms, but the mark would have finite thickness, specifying a whole range of numbers (presumably much wider than the size of an atom), and ranges have nonzero probability.

Source: Trivia / Math

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