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Definition of Slenderness

1. Noun. The quality of being slight or inadequate. "The slenderness of the evidence"

2. Noun. Relatively small dimension through an object as opposed to its length or width. "The thinness of a rope"

3. Noun. The property of an attractively thin person.

Definition of Slenderness

1. Noun. The property of being slender. ¹

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Definition of Slenderness

1. [n -ES]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Slenderness

slender rush slender salamander slender sedge slender sedges slender spike rush slender wild oat slenderer slenderest slenderise slenderize

slenderized slenderizes slenderizing slenderly slenderness slendernesses slenter slenters slepez slept

slept off slepton sleptons sleptwalk sleptwalked sleuth sleuth-hound sleuth-hounds sleuthed

Literary usage of Slenderness

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Handbook of Building Construction: Data for Architects, Designing and by George Albert Hool, Nathan Clarke Johnson (1920)
"is called the slenderness ratio. a, m, and n are constants. ... Slenderness Ratio.—-The unsupported length of a compression member should never exceed 200 ..."

2. Handbook of Building Construction: Data for Architects, Designing and by George Albert Hool, Nathan Clarke Johnson (1920)
"is called the slenderness ratio. ra, m, and n are constants. ... Slenderness Ratio.—The unsupported length of a compression member should never exceed 200 ..."

3. The New Testament in the original Greek by Brooke Foss Westcott, Fenton John Anthony Hort (1896)
"The limitations of view in Griesbach and his predecessors were the natural result of the slenderness of their materials. Bentley and Bengel wrote when A was ..."

4. Memoirs of the Life of Colonel Hutchinson, Governor of Nottingham by Lucy Apsley Hutchinson, Julius Hutchinson, Charles Harding Firth (1885)
"... having through the declining of his family, the slenderness of his estate, and the parsimony of his nature, less interest in the country.1 To yoke with ..."

5. Text-book of Mechanics by Louis Adolphe Martin (1911)
"Slenderness Ratio of a Column. — Euler's Equations may be changed to the following form: f ~ c ~ c £/_ RAW- cEA ..."

6. Choosing Employees by Mental and Physical Tests by William Fretz Kemble (1917)
"Thickness, slenderness, and span of hand. Greater field for ambidexterity. Action, control, continuity, carefulness, rhythm, natural and dramatic. ..."

7. An Account of the Fishes Found in the River Ganges and Its Branches by Francis Hamilton (1822)
"The fail fin ends in a crescent, or sinus; but its rays, on account of their slenderness, and the brightness of the colours, cannot be counted. ..."

8. A Hand-book for Travellers in Central Italy: Including the Papal States by Octavian Blewitt (1850)
"... the expansion of the flat wide chest, the Apollo-like slenderness, yet manliness of the limbs, the negligent flow of the slight drapery thrown around ..."

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