dimension
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: computing
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Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *dwóh₁
Proto-Indo-European *d(w)is-
Proto-Italic *dis-
Latin dis-
Proto-Indo-European *meh₁-
Proto-Italic *mētis
Latin mētior
Latin dīmētior
Proto-Indo-European *-tis
Proto-Indo-European *-Hō
Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō
Proto-Italic *-tiō
Latin -tiō
Latin dīmēnsiōder.
English dimension
Derived from Latin dīmēnsiō.
Inflected forms:
form: dimensions
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: dimensions
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: dimensioning
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: dimensioned
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: dimensioned
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A single aspect of a given thing.
pos: noun
examples: 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.
gloss: A measure of spatial extent in a particular direction, such as height, width or breadth, or depth.
pos: noun
examples: However, tubes of the same dimensions also look like solid cylinders, because their ovals are automatically treated as the top or bottom faces of solids.
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.
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.
gloss: A construct whereby objects or individuals can be distinguished.
pos: noun
gloss: The number of independent coordinates needed to specify uniquely the location of a point in a space; also, any of such independent coordinates.
pos: noun
gloss: The number of elements of any basis of a vector space.
pos: noun
gloss: One of the physical properties that are regarded as fundamental measures of a physical quantity, such as mass, length and time.
pos: noun
examples: The dimension of velocity is length divided by time.
gloss: Any of the independent ranges of indices in a multidimensional array.
pos: noun
gloss: A universe or plane of existence.
pos: noun
examples: a machine that lets you travel to a parallel dimension.
"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———"
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.
He was experimenting with matter transportation through the nth dimension.
gloss: To mark, cut or shape something to specified dimensions.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Nameless and formless the Spirit within shines forth, unconditioned and everlasting. What name is befitting the soul? How shall Infinite Effulgence be manifested? Too great a light blinds the senses. Too great a truth is too exhilarating for the student. The boundless, infinite Sentience, incomprehensibly dimensioned in Being and Intelligence, rests Unseen and Unthinkable in the shore of His Own omnipresent and superomnipresent consciousness.
The mechanical drawing artist almost automatically lays down a triangle in order to draw a line in the desired place. Data entry for AutoCAD, by contrast, requires you to think in terms of coordinate positions rather than in the customary patterns of dimensioning.
Some people muse over real estate listings in the Sunday paper, looking at floor plans for apartments they could never afford, looking at an idea of what their life might be like with a properly dimensioned foyer.
“The shape seems simple,” Bruce Leep said. “But very precise dimensioning is required. It was difficult to figure out how all of these angles come together.”
The first sixty argam form the basis for my own sexagesimal use, in the accounting of my business and in the dimensioning of buildings.
gloss: To specify the size of (an array or similar data structure); to allocate.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Dimension an array to hold only as much data as you intend to put into it.
Synonyms: construct whereby objects
individuals can be distinguished
Related words: hyperdimension
Derived words: 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
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