dimension
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /daɪˈmɛn.ʃən/
ipa: [daɪˈmɛn.ʃn̩]
ipa: /dɪˈmɛn.ʃən/
ipa: [dɪˈmɛn.ʃn̩]
ipa: /dɪˈmɛn.ʃən/
ipa: [dɪˈmɛn.ʃn̩]
ipa: /daɪˈmɛn.ʃən/
ipa: [daɪˈmɛn.ʃn̩]
rhymes: -ɛnʃən
Forms: form: dimensions
Etymology: From Latin dīmēnsiō.
Senses: examples: text: This film can be enjoyed on many dimensions - the script is great, the acting is realistic, and the special effects will simply take you aback.
glosses: A single aspect of a given thing.
examples: text: I can tell you that in your universe you move freely in three dimensions that you call space. […] After that it gets a bit complicated, and there's all sort of stuff going on in dimensions thirteen to twenty-two that you really wouldn't want to know about.
ref: 1992, Douglas Adams, chapter 17, in Mostly Harmless (The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy), page 150:
text: We live our lives in three dimensions for our threescore and ten allotted years. Yet every branch of contemporary science, from statistics to cosmology, alludes to processes that operate on scales outside of human experience: the millisecond and the nanometer, the eon and the light-year.
ref: 2012 January 23, Robert L. Dorit, “Rereading Darwin”, in American Scientist, volume 100, number 1, archived from the original on 14 Nov 2012, page 23:
glosses: A measure of spatial extent in a particular direction, such as height, width or breadth, or depth.
glosses: A construct whereby objects or individuals can be distinguished.
topics: geometry
mathematics
sciences
glosses: The number of independent coordinates needed to specify uniquely the location of a point in a space; also, any of such independent coordinates.
topics: linear-algebra
mathematics
sciences
glosses: The number of elements of any basis of a vector space.
examples: text: The dimension of velocity is length divided by time.
topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: One of the physical properties that are regarded as fundamental measures of a physical quantity, such as mass, length and time.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Any of the independent ranges of indices in a multidimensional array.
examples: text: a machine that lets you travel to a parallel dimension.
text: "If a man should wish to be in some other place, it is entirely possible for him to imagine himself in that place and, diving back through the negative dimension, to emerge out of it in that place with instantaneous rapidity. To imagine oneself———"
ref: 1938 July, L. Ron Hubbard, “The Dangerous Dimension”, in Astounding Science-Fiction, volume XXI, number 5, Street & Smith, →OCLC, page 105:
text: DR. PAUL MANHEIM: I have been on the other side. I have touched another dimension. Part of me is still there.
LAURA MANHEIM: Help him.
DR. CRUSHER: Try to stay calm Dr. Manheim. I don't think it's going to help you're struggling against it.
DR. PAUL MANHEIM: My mind is floating between two places. It is difficult to know which is which. There is no way to explain it.
ref: 1988 May 2, Rod Loomis, Michelle Phillips, Gates McFadden, We'll Always Have Paris (Star Trek: The Next Generation), Paramount Domestic Television, →OCLC:
text: He was experimenting with matter transportation through the nth dimension.
ref: 2016, A.K. Brown, Jumpstart (Champagne Universe Series: Book 1), page 2:
topics: fantasy
literature
media
publishing
science-fiction
glosses: A universe or plane of existence.
Synonyms: sense: single aspect of a thing
word: aspect
sense: measure of spatial extent
word: magnitude
sense: measure of spatial extent
word: proportion
sense: measure of spatial extent
word: size
sense: measure of spatial extent
word: scope
topics: property
word: construct whereby objects
topics: property
word: individuals can be distinguished
Derived terms: 3-D
3-dimensional
4-dimensional
box-counting dimension
codimension
correlation dimension
dimensionable
dimensional
dimensional analysis
dimensionality
dimensional shingle
dimensionful
dimensionless
dimension lumber
dimension stone
dimensionwise
dimension work
eigendimension
exterior dimension
four-dimensional
fourth dimension
fractal dimension
Hamel dimension
Hausdorff dimension
Helly dimension
Iitaka dimension
information dimension
isoperimetric dimension
Kaplan-Yorke dimension
Krull dimension
Lebesgue covering dimension
Lyapunov dimension
Minkowski-Bouligand dimension
Minkowski dimension
multidimensional
nanodimension
one-dimensional
ordinate dimension
pointwise dimension
poset dimension
predimension
pseudodimension
q-dimension
subdimension
third dimension
three-dimensional
transdimensional
Related terms: hyperdimension