Width of a motive (awaiting review)

The width of a weight $w$ motive $M$ in $M(F,\Q)$ is the number of steps from the first nonzero entry in the Hodge vector to the last nonzero entry. Thus if $M$ has weight $7$ and Hodge vector $(0,2,3,1,3,2,0)$, then its width is $4$.