épaisseur

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VOLUME, _m. _, étendue, épaisseur d'un objet; livre relié _ou_ broché.

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  • VOLUME, _m. _, étendue, épaisseur d'un objet; livre relié _ou_ broché. —  French Conversation and Composition
  • "Doubtless a plain which is destined some day to furnish the mountains which the rivers will carve out from its mass would have, when still but a little way from the sea, but a moderate elevation above its river channels; but gradually as the ocean basin removed from this plain, this basin constantly sinking down into the interior (_épaisseur_) of the external crust of the globe, and the soil of the plain perpetually rising higher from the deposition of the detritus of organic bodies, it results that, after ages of elevation of the plain in question, it would be in the end sufficiently thick for high mountains to be shaped and carved out of its mass. —  Lamarck, the Founder of Evolution His Life and Work
  • TRANSPARENT, E, qui se laisse traverser par la lumière et permet de distinguer nettement les objets à travers son épaisseur. —  French Conversation and Composition
  • - il visualise les informations en trois dimensions partout dans son bureau, donc dans un espace d'environ 10 m2 de surface et 2 m de haut, ce qui est infiniment plus vaste que les 21 pouces maximum sans épaisseur de son écran; —  Entretiens / Interviews / Entrevistas
 

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