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[edit] Old comments about deleting/transwiki as dictionary definition

This article belongs to wiktionary or no? -- Taku 21:55, 27 Sep 2003 (UTC)

no LirQ —The preceding comment was added on 22:06, 27 September 2003.

  • Delete Length - Dictionary entry. WINAD. User:200.165.208.90
    • Keep. wshun 04:13, 6 Oct 2003 (UTC)
    • Keep, article convinced me even though at first I thought it an obvious delete. Fuzheado 07:28, 6 Oct 2003 (UTC)
    • Keep, it has more info than a dictionary entry. Evil saltine 08:07, 6 Oct 2003 (UTC)
    • Keep. - Patrick 16:18, 6 Oct 2003 (UTC)
    • Keep - interesting article. Tiles 00:04, 7 Oct 2003 (UTC)
    • Del - I like the article but it is nothing but usage. Move it to wiktionary obviously. -- Taku
    • Keep. It's somewhat interesting as it is and could esily grow a bit. -- BCorr ¤ Брайен 14:04, 7 Oct 2003 (UTC)
    • Keep. Hard to see exactly how it would get linked to, but it is an interesting article - Marshman 19:01, 7 Oct 2003 (UTC)
    • Keep. -- Jake 08:53, 9 Oct 2003 (UTC)
    • Keep ~~

—The preceding vote was copied/moved from the old Wikipedia:Votes for deletion on 12:35, 12 October 2003 by MyRedDice.

    • Del - It's a terrible article, which only serves to confuse the term length. It contains no information that isn't in the term curve. Cederal. —The preceding comment was added on 15:06, 5 May 2004.
    • Keep. It definitely needs work, but Cederal is horribly wrong. Cederal seems ignorant of physics. In that field, length is one of the fundamental "dimensions" (that term being understood as in dimensional analysis). Michael Hardy 16:24, 5 May 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Meaning of length in physics

I consider myself a physicist, and as such, I must claim that the term length in physics is the same as in mathematics. If you want to discuss use of language, physicists do use the term length in dimensional analysis, but this is only a burrowed use from it's mathematical meaning. This article claims that "Length is not an intrinsic property of anything", while it's obviously an intrinsic property of curves in metric spaces. Just because relativity says our world is not metric (and has only a pseudo-metrics) doesn't mean anything... -User:Cederal 18:24, 5 May 2004 (GMT) (sorry, I don't know the transformation to UTC)

[edit] Correct?

The article states "an object's width is less than its length". Is this considered to be correct? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by SaltNpepper (talk • contribs) 11:15, 27 May 2005 (UTC)

I have rewritten the article, so it may be more clear now. To directly answer your question, length has two major meanings. First, the oldest meaning is the one you mention, that of the longest dimension and opposed to width and height. A meaning that results from that is that of distance or by measuring along a line (which is longer than it is wide). —Centrx→talk • 20:42, 27 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Length / Lenght

I'm a little confused about the spelling of this word, Length is probably correct, but I have also seen Lenght out there on the net. Is it the "spoken language" version or is it just a lot of people who misspell it? It's probably easy for all native english speakers out there but for someone like me, it can get a little confusing sometimes. Lizzzard 19:49, 28 January 2007 (UTC)

P.S. Hope this isn't way out of the guidelines of the discussion pages D.S.

Yes, those are typos/misspellings. —Centrx→talk • 20:14, 28 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Proposed WikiProject

Right now the content related to the various articles relating to measurement seems to be rather indifferently handled. This is not good, because at least 45 or so are of a great deal of importance to Wikipedia, and are even regarded as Vital articles. On that basis, I am proposing a new project at Wikipedia:WikiProject Council/Proposals#Measurement to work with these articles, and the others that relate to the concepts of measurement. Any and all input in the proposed project, including indications of willingness to contribute to its work, would be greatly appreciated. Thank you for your attention. John Carter 20:49, 2 May 2007 (UTC)