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The word '''size''' may refer to how big something is. In particular:
- Measurement
- Dimensions: length, width, height, diameter, perimeter, area, volume
- Clothing sizes such as shoe size or dress size
- Anthropometry|Body dimensions
    - Human height
    - Human weight
- In statistics (hypothesis testing), the '''size''' of the test refers to the rate of false positives, denoted by α.
- In computing, filesize
- size (Unix), a command-line Unix tool.
- Magnitude (mathematics)|Magnitude or size of a mathematical object.
- Magnitude of brightness or intensity of a star or an earthquake as measured on a logarithmic scale.
- In mathematics there are, in addition to the dimensions mentioned above (equal if there is an isometry), various other concepts of size for sets:
    - measure (mathematics)
    - cardinality (equal if there is a bijection)
    - for well-ordered sets: ordinal number (equal if there is an order-isomorphism)
Size can also refer to:
- Sizing, gelatinous or glutinous substances used as a glaze or filler for porous materials such as paper or cloth
- Resizing (fiction)

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