Usually means: Least wide; smallest width dimension.
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We found 14 dictionaries that define the word narrowest:

General (11 matching dictionaries)
  1. narrowest: Merriam-Webster
  2. narrowest: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. narrowest: Collins English Dictionary
  4. narrowest: Vocabulary.com
  5. narrowest: Wordnik
  6. narrowest: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. narrowest: Wiktionary
  8. Narrowest, narrowest: Dictionary.com
  9. narrowest: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  10. narrowest: FreeDictionary.org
  11. narrowest: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. narrowest: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. narrowest: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. narrowest: Idioms

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Definitions from Wiktionary (narrow)

adjective:  Having a small width; not wide; having opposite edges or sides that are close, especially by comparison to length or depth.
adjective:  Of little extent; very limited; circumscribed.
adjective:  (figuratively) Restrictive; without flexibility or latitude.
adjective:  Having a small margin or degree.
adjective:  (dated) Limited as to means; straitened
adjective:  Parsimonious; niggardly; covetous; selfish.
adjective:  Scrutinizing in detail; close; accurate; exact.
adjective:  (phonetics) Formed (as a vowel) by a close position of some part of the tongue in relation to the palate; or (according to Bell) by a tense condition of the pharynx; distinguished from wide.
adjective:  (computing) Of or supporting only those text characters that can fit into the traditional 8-bit representation.
noun:  (chiefly in the plural) A narrow passage, especially a contracted part of a stream, lake, or sea; a strait connecting two bodies of water.
verb:  (transitive) To reduce in width or extent; to contract.
verb:  (intransitive) To get narrower.
verb:  (of a person or eyes) To partially lower one's eyelids in a way usually taken to suggest a defensive, aggressive or penetrating look.
verb:  (knitting) To contract the size of, as a stocking, by taking two stitches into one.
verb:  (transitive, programming) To convert to a data type that cannot hold as many distinct values.
adjective:  Contracted; of limited scope; bigoted
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