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slenderness|ˈslɛndənɪs|
Also 6 sklendurnes, sclendernesse; 6–7 slendernes(se.
[f. slender a. + -ness.]
1. The quality of being slender in form or physical condition; slimness, spareness. Also in fig. context.
1538Starkey England i. iii. 72 In thys polytyke body, ther ys a certayn sklendurnes, debylyte, and wekenes therof. Ibid. ii. i. 152 A syngular remedy for the sklendurnes of our polytyke body. 1580Hollyband Treas. Fr. Tong, Menuiseté, thinnesse, slendernesse. 1597A. M. tr. Guillemeau's Fr. Chirurg. 46/2 The legges, hippes and armes are thinner belowe then above; we must therefore on such slendernes apply some compresses. 1626Bacon Sylva §116 As for Small Whistles, or Shepheards Oaten Pipes, they give a Sound, because of their extreame Slendernesse. 1686Plot Staffordsh. 389 According to the bigness and slenderness of the neck. 1713Derham Phys.-Theol. 191 Its extraordinary Length and Slenderness is very useful to some. 1851Ruskin Stones Ven. I. viii. §11 note, When shafts are used in the upper stories of buildings,..no such relative limits exist either to slenderness or solidity.
2. a. Pettiness, smallness, slightness, etc.
1542Brinklow Compl. ii. (1874) 26 The court of the Marshyalsee, I can neyther thynck, speake, nor write, the slendernesse..of that court. 1555Eden Decades (Arb.) 50 The sclendernesse of theyr capacitie. 1570–6Lambarde Peramb. Kent (1826) 303 The yeerely value is but small, the slendernesse wherof [etc.]. 1607Topsell Serpents (1658) 813 Mark well the slendernesse of this comparison. 1646J. Gregory Notes on Script. 133 The Coarsenesse of the Raiment,..the slendernesse of the dyet. 1743Phil. Trans. XLII. 320, I..have presumed, on the Slenderness of our Acquaintance, to send thee an Account thereof. 1818Hallam Mid. Ages (1872) I. 112 Even if we should often doubt particular facts from slenderness of proof. 1870Pall Mall G. 7 Nov. 3 A friend..knowing the slenderness of my purse.
†b. Limited knowledge or intellect. Obs.
1612Woodall Surgeon's Mate Ep. Salut., Better documents then my slendernesse can unfold. 1651Rec. Communion §2 Their slownesse and slendernesse..was very great.
3. attrib. slenderness ratio Engin., the ratio of the effective length of a column or pillar to its least radius of gyration (formerly, to its least diameter).
1905M. Merriman Mechanics of Materials (ed. 10) ix. 191 The ratio l/r is called the ‘slenderness ratio’ of the column. 1931Engineering 9 Jan. 61/3 Experiments on eccentrically-loaded steel columns... The slenderness ratios ranged from 50 to 150. 1976R. F. Warner et al. Reinforced Concrete xiii. 308 The effective strength of the column section..is divided by a reduction factor R... R is given as R = 1·2 - 0·01(l/r) in which l/r is the maximum slenderness ratio for the column, for bending in any plane. |