(physics) Lorentz-Fitzgerald contraction

plural of length scale

plural of length contraction

(programming) An operator that returns the length of a string in bytes, characters, or code points, or the number of consecutive numerically indexed values in a table or array.

Half the normal length. / Of a portrait or photograph: depicting only the upper half of the subject.

(horse racing) Half the length of a horse. / A portrait or photograph that depicts only the upper half of the subject.

(archaic) prolonged life; longevity

(genetics) A length of nucleic acid that has been sequenced.

(art) A portrait or statue depicting the whole figure.

(physics) In plasmas and electrolytes, a measure of a charge carrier's net electrostatic effect in a solution and how far that effect persists.