Dimension
[dɪ'menʃ(ə)n;daɪ-] or [dɪ'mɛnʃ(ə)n;daɪ-]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) the magnitude of something in a particular direction (especially length or width or height).
(noun.) one of three Cartesian coordinates that determine a position in space.
(verb.) shape or form to required dimensions.
(verb.) indicate the dimensions on; 'These techniques permit us to dimension the human heart'.
錄入:温德尔--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(n.) Measure in a single line, as length, breadth, height, thickness, or circumference; extension; measurement; -- usually, in the plural, measure in length and breadth, or in length, breadth, and thickness; extent; size; as, the dimensions of a room, or of a ship; the dimensions of a farm, of a kingdom.
(n.) Extent; reach; scope; importance; as, a project of large dimensions.
(n.) The degree of manifoldness of a quantity; as, time is quantity having one dimension; volume has three dimensions, relative to extension.
(n.) A literal factor, as numbered in characterizing a term. The term dimensions forms with the cardinal numbers a phrase equivalent to degree with the ordinal; thus, a2b2c is a term of five dimensions, or of the fifth degree.
(n.) The manifoldness with which the fundamental units of time, length, and mass are involved in determining the units of other physical quantities.
校對:莎娜
同義詞及近義詞：
n. [1]. Extent, extension, measure (in one direction).[2]. (Algebra.) Literal factor.
編輯:兰尼
同義詞及反義詞：
SYN:Measurement, size, configuration, delineation, mass, bulk, extent
ANT:Mismeasurement, segment
錄入:山姆
解釋/意思:
n. usually in pl. measure in length breadth and thickness (the three dimensions of space): extent: size.—adjs. Dimen′sional concerning dimension (one-dimensional two-dimensional three-dimensional space = space of one two three dimensions); Dimen′sioned having dimension; Dimen′sionless.—Dimension work masonry in stones of specified size.—Fourth dimension an additional dimension attributed to space by a hypothetical speculation.
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例句/造句/用法:
- Some conception of the enormous scale upon which grain is raised in the Western States may be gotten from the dimensions of the farms. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世紀發明進展.
- Around the sides of the room, bounding this open space, run two tiers of gallery, divided, as is the main floor beneath them; into alcoves of liberal dimensions. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- If it be conjoined with the extension, it must exist somewhere within its dimensions. 大衛·休謨. 人性論.
- Wot do you say to another o' the same dimensions? 查理斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外傳.
- Methought the apartment only was changed, being of different proportions and dimensions. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 維萊特.
- He performed the real task of a leader--a task which has essentially two dimensions. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
- No matter how staunch, sound and grand in dimensions man may build his ships, old Neptune can still toss them. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世紀發明.
- After numerous experiments, in which the dimensions of the screw were successively diminished, the propeller was at length reduced to two oblique blades. 弗雷德里克·科利爾·貝克維爾. 偉大的事實.
- In the British patent to Puckle, No. 418, of 1718, is shown and described a well-constructed revolver carried on a tripod, and of the dimensions of the modern machine gun. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世紀發明進展.
- The Baptistery, which is a few years older than the Leaning Tower, is a stately rotunda, of huge dimensions, and was a costly structure. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
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