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longnesses

longnesses

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longnesses

  1. plural of longness
    • 1988, Donald W. Katzner, “Theory of Demand: Utility Maximization”, in An Introduction to the Economic Theory of Market Behavior: Microeconomics from a Walrasian Perspective, Revised edition edition, Edward Elgar Publishing, published 2008, ISBN 9781848442474, page 49:
      The scale measures longness in units of length. Its ordinality guarantees that objects with greater longnesses are assigned more unites of length when measured.
    • 2016 March 9, Dr. Axel Bergmann, “Re: Aquilius (?), Latin metre”, in humantities.classics, Usenet:
      Contrarily the iamb's weak element (= the iamb's Senkung) mostly is free in being either 1 or 2 m.u. long, which longnesses may be effected by *v* (1 m.u.), *vv* (2 m.u.), or *-* (2 m.u.)