How to Calculate Gallons by Cubic Feet. How to Calculate Average Volume. How to Find the Area of Squares. How to Calculate the Area of a Space. What Are the Units for Diameter? Scales Used in Technical Drawings. How to Convert Lux to Candela. Length , width , height , and depth are nouns are derived from the adjectives long , wide , high , and deep. They follow a common English pattern that involves a vowel change often to a shorter vowel and the addition of th.
The lone t in height is modern. Obsolete forms include heighth and highth , and it is still common to hear people pronounce it that way.
Other English adjective-noun pairs are related in this way, too: e. Measurement: Length, width, height, depth. Measurement: Length, width, height, depth Topics: Mathematical Language.
Length, width, height, depth Outside of the mathematics class, context usually guides our choice of vocabulary: the length of a string, the width of a doorway, the height of a flagpole, the depth of a pool. Rectangles of various shapes and positions. Slanted rectangle. Rectangles of various orientations.
David March 17, pm. Graphics standards are width x height, fine art standards are height x width… see any fine art in a museum or fine art publication, always height x width… just about everything else is width x height. Bogdan March 20, pm. It has nothing with applications as reference.
Application designers just followed simple rule. You read everything from left to right and top to bottom. Got it? David March 30, am. What is confusing is that digital image dimensions are expressed in the opposite order from flat art paintings, etc.
Orin July 17, pm. Reading has nothing to do with a standard like this, it comes from geometry as translated to computer programs, which are based on x w and y h.
JJ July 22, pm. Funny… I came here to prove someone wrong. A lot of people think the smaller number should always be listed first. It makes no logical sense and drives me mad. Dereklotek August 11, pm. All seem to be width x height. So I am going with that. Gretchen August 19, pm. I think the reasoning is simple and anatomical: our eyes are oriented horizontally on our faces.
So I think we are more quickly and likely to think in terms of a more horizontal world around us as the priority. Rust August 26, pm. Layout orientation-wise using a letter-sized paper, 8. Crystal September 5, pm. Miguel September 8, am. Since drywall is installed running wider rather than taller…… HxW makes more sense, no? Jay Tucker September 18, am. In normal practice, the smaller value is assumed to be the width and the bigger value as the height or length.
Mike O'Leary January 19, pm. The first number has always been the width, Doors, windows. Height is another story. The portrait however seems to change the dynamics , HxW. The door industry also confuses this issue when you call a door a right hand swing or left hand swing.
Commercial door ordering is opposite of residential door orders. The lesson here is to ask what all the values are when ordering. This info. Albert Anthony February 14, pm. Tinashe, so in your world everything is taller than wider??? Sean February 25, pm. This is something there will never really be a standard it all depends on the industry. Yes the graphics standard is generally width by height as mentioned due to design software being x y w h.
Dave Veatch March 11, am. This is such a great article! I have a background in video production, but because I live in a small town I had to diversify my skills to survive financially so now I do graphics for web and print. It drives me crazy when I receive dimensions for a graphic and there is no designation for width and height. It came from a non-profit that my client will be sponsoring. I guess if I was gambling in Vegas the odds would be pretty good to win!
Ya know… it would be so easy to add at least a W or an H on one side of the measurement. Is that really too much to ask? Alan March 27, pm. Steven Collerol May 23, pm. I think width and height is rational and to be constructed in a way that when the observer attends to the rather rational dimensions, they would see the first value in their head that is relative to where they are standing.
Lina May 23, pm. I received a request from my boss to re-size images to x , and there are a lot of storage images. I have applied width x height. Funny, the image looks weird because the storage is built horizontally. Now, I am confused. Need to wait for a clarification for 24 hours because we are from different regions. So, short of convincing everyone in the world to always use whatever method you prefer, it makes sense, as Dave Veatch points out, to just add a W and an H and L and D if applicable after the number, e.
Caryn June 30, am. I ent on this web to ask a simple question, and everyone came up with different answers. So I guess putting 18w x 13h would not confuse anyone.
Don August 11, pm. When I see a drawn rectangle on a piece of paper and I am asked to give the measurements, this is how I always see and measure it. My eyes goto the vertical length first and then to the horizontal length next. This is how I measure it and how I writ it down.
Steve Vaught August 11, pm. Thanks for the feedback! Sounds like we all just need to stop assuming and define our widths and heights by clearly labeling them! Chelsea August 25, pm. Depends on the industry. Pete Fisher September 30, pm. Oscar Apronti October 7, am. Stanley October 8, pm. It is a wooden box listed as 12X12X Tommy Minahan January 26, pm. I know this topic is old, but I wanted to give my perspective on why it should be WxH.
In mathematics your always taught X by Y. So, basically in every field the majority is width by height.. Steve Vaught January 27, am. My thinking too, Tommy! Thanks for your comment! Nomad Trader March 16, pm. Ideal dimensions for cover files are 2, x 1, M Frost April 16, pm. I work in picture framing and we always do Height, Width, Depth. HC June 26, pm. Chrysta Feely August 1, pm. In terms of graphing, coordinates are alphabetized and should be x,y for 2D and x,y,z for 2. The x-axis runs left to right width and the y-axis runs up and down length , the z-axis would be front to back depth.
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