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Length vs Dosage - What's the difference?

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Length is a related term of dosage.


As nouns the difference between length and dosage

is that length is the distance measured along the longest dimension of an object while dosage is the administration of a medication etc, in a measured amount; dosing.

As a verb length

is (obsolete) to lengthen.

length

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • The distance measured along the longest dimension of an object.
  • duration
  • * Robert Frost
  • Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length .
  • (horse racing) The length of a horse, used to indicate the distance between horses at the end of a race.
  • (mathematics) Distance between the two ends of a line segment.
  • (cricket) The distance down the pitch that the ball bounces on its way to the batsman.
  • (figuratively) Total extent.
  • the length of a book
  • Part of something that is long; a physical piece of something.
  • a length of rope

    Derived terms

    * arm's length * at length * cable length * feature-length * floor-length * focal length * full-length * good length * go to great lengths * half-length * knee-length * lengthen * lengthful * length overall * lengthways * lengthwise * lengthy * line and length * null patch length * overlength * path length * screening length * short of a length * wavelength * zero-length launching

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (obsolete) To lengthen.
  • * 1599 , , XIV. 30:
  • Pack night, peep day; good day, of night now borrow: / Short night, to-night, and length thyself to-morrow.

    dosage

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The administration of a medication etc, in a measured amount; dosing
  • The addition of a small measured amount of a substance to something e.g. sugar to wine
  • The measured amount so administered or added; the dose
  • Anagrams

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