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厚度

hòu dù

HSK 3.0 level 5 2-character word

厚度 (hòu dù) means "thickness". It is an HSK 3.0 level 5 word, and was not on the old six-level HSK list.

What 厚度 means

1. thickness

The characters in 厚度

• 厚hòuthick; deep or profound; kind
• 度dùto pass; to spend (time); measure

Example sentences

• 正如我们的数学家所言，这个空间有三个维度，可称之为长度，宽度和厚度，并且始终可以通过参考三个平面来定义，每个平面彼此成直角。
  Zhèngrú wǒmen de shùxuéjiā suǒ yán, zhège kōngjiān yǒu sān gè wéidù, kě chēngzhīwéi chángdù, kuāndù hé hòudù, bìngqiě shǐzhōng kěyǐ tōngguò cānkǎo sān gè píngmiàn lái dìngyì, měi gè píngmiàn bǐcǐ chéng zhíjiǎo.
  That Space, as our mathematicians have it, is spoken of as having three dimensions, which one may call Length, Breadth, and Thickness, and is always definable by reference to three planes, each at right angles to the others.

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