Dimension
[dɪ'menʃ(ə)n;daɪ-] or [dɪ'mɛnʃ(ə)n;daɪ-]
Definition
(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'.
Editor: Wendell--From WordNet
Definition
(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.
Editor: Shanna
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Extent, extension, measure (in one direction).[2]. (Algebra.) Literal factor.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Measurement, size, configuration, delineation, mass, bulk, extent
ANT:Mismeasurement, segment
Typist: Sam
Definition
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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Examples
- 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. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- 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. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- If it be conjoined with the extension, it must exist somewhere within its dimensions. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
- Wot do you say to another o' the same dimensions? Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- Methought the apartment only was changed, being of different proportions and dimensions. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- He performed the real task of a leader--a task which has essentially two dimensions. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- No matter how staunch, sound and grand in dimensions man may build his ships, old Neptune can still toss them. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- After numerous experiments, in which the dimensions of the screw were successively diminished, the propeller was at length reduced to two oblique blades. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
- 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. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- The Baptistery, which is a few years older than the Leaning Tower, is a stately rotunda, of huge dimensions, and was a costly structure. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
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