dimension en · NOUN
Pronunciation
- [daɪˈmɛn.ʃn̩] (Canada, General-American)
- /daɪˈmɛn.ʃən/ (Received-Pronunciation)
- /dɪˈmɛn.ʃən/ (Canada, General-American)
- [dəˈmen.ʃn̩] (New-Zealand)
- [daɪˈmɛn.ʃn̩] (Received-Pronunciation)
- [dɪˈmɛn.ʃn̩] (Canada, General-American)
- [dɪˈmɛn.ʃn̩] (Received-Pronunciation)
- /dɪˈmen.ʃən/ (Australia)
- (US) audio
- /dɑeˈmen.ʃən/ (Australia)
- [dɑe̯ˈmen.ʃn̩] (Australia)
- /daɪˈmɛn.ʃən/ (Canada, General-American, rare)
- [dɑe̯ˈmen.ʃn̩] (New-Zealand)
- [dɪˈmen.ʃn̩] (Australia)
- /dɪˈmɛn.ʃən/ (Received-Pronunciation)
- /dəˈmen.ʃən/ (New-Zealand)
- /daɪˈmen.ʃən/ (New-Zealand)
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *dwóh₁ ▲ Proto-Indo-European *trísinflu. 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.
Meanings
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A single aspect of a given thing.
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.
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A measure of spatial extent in a particular direction, such as height, width or breadth, or depth.
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.
1985 November 19, Erik Sandberg-Diment, “PERSONAL COMPUTERS; DESIGNING IS MADE EASY BY AUTOCAD”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 21 Apr 2017: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.
2012 January 14, Robert L. Dorit, “Rereading Darwin”, in American Scientist, volume 100, number 1, archived from the original on 14 Nov 2012, page 23: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.
1992, Douglas Adams, chapter 17, in Mostly Harmless (The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy), page 150:
- A construct whereby objects or individuals can be distinguished.
- The number of independent coordinates needed to specify uniquely the location of a point in a space; also, any of such independent coordinates.
- The number of elements of any basis of a vector space.
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One of the physical properties that are regarded as fundamental measures of a physical quantity, such as mass, length and time.
On this last point Lenin is inconsistent, for he himself confidently answers various questions of physics: for example, he says that it is reactionary nonsense to claim that there can be more than three dimensions, and all forms of indeterminism are likewise nonsensical.
1978 [1976], Leszek Kołakowski, translated by P[aul] S[teven] Falla, Main Currents of Marxism, volume II: The Golden Age, Oxford: Clarendon Press, translation of Główne nurty marksizmu: rozwój (in Polish), →ISBN, →OCLC, page 454:The dimension of velocity is length divided by time.
- Any of the independent ranges of indices in a multidimensional array.
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A universe or plane of existence.
He was experimenting with matter transportation through the nth dimension.
2016, A.K. Brown, Jumpstart (Champagne Universe Series: Book 1), page 2:"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———"
1938 July, L. Ron Hubbard, “The Dangerous Dimension”, in Astounding Science-Fiction, volume XXI, number 5, Street & Smith, →OCLC, page 105:a machine that lets you travel to a parallel dimension.
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.
1988 May 2, Rod Loomis, Michelle Phillips, Gates McFadden, We'll Always Have Paris (Star Trek: The Next Generation), Paramount Domestic Television, →OCLC:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| dimensions | Number=Plur | lexicographic |
Deriveds
predimension · Minkowski-Bouligand dimension · dimensional · pseudodimension · eigendimension · Lebesgue covering dimension · Helly dimension · dimensionless · dimensionality · poset dimension · fractal dimension · codimension · q-dimension · isoperimetric dimension · one-dimensional · Minkowski dimension · box-counting dimension · pointwise dimension · multidimensional · 4-dimensional · transdimensional · correlation dimension · Hausdorff dimension · 3-D · Iitaka dimension · exterior dimension · dimensional shingle · dimensionwise · four-dimensional · Lyapunov dimension · Hamel dimension · Krull dimension · Kaplan-Yorke dimension · information dimension · subdimension · 3-dimensional · fourth dimension · dimension lumber · three-dimensional · nanodimension · third dimension · dimensional analysis · ordinate dimension · dimensionful · dimension stone · dimension work · dimensionable
Relateds
Synonyms
proportion (measure of spatial extent) · magnitude (measure of spatial extent) · size (measure of spatial extent) · individuals can be distinguished · aspect (single aspect of a thing) · construct whereby objects · scope (measure of spatial extent)
Translations (178)
sv aspekt (single aspect of a thing) · el διάσταση (single aspect of a thing) · vi chiều (in geometry) · ja 次元 (in computing) · ja 面積 (measure of spatial extent) · ka განზომილება (in physics) · ka განზომილება (in geometry) · th มิติ (in geometry) · ja 次元 (in science fiction) · sl dimenzija (in geometry) · sl dimenzija (in physics) · pt dimensão (in physics) · ko 차원 (in computing) · fr dimension (in physics) · fi ulottuvuus (in science fiction) · ro dimensiune (in physics) · da aspekt (single aspect of a thing) · tr evren (in science fiction) · de Dimension (in geometry) · fr dimension (in geometry) · chr ᏂᎦᏅᎯᏒ (measure of spatial extent) · pl wymiar (in geometry) · cs dimenze (in geometry) · it dimensione (measure of spatial extent) · tl sukod (in physics) · km វិមាត្រ (in geometry) · ka განზომილება (in science fiction) · cs rozměr (in geometry) · sl dimenzija (measure of spatial extent) · tl sukod (single aspect of a thing) · ar بُعْد (measure of spatial extent) · gd tomhas (in physics) · cmn 尺寸 (measure of spatial extent) · pl wymiar (in physics) · fr dimension (measure of spatial extent) · tl sukod (measure of spatial extent) · pt dimensão (in science fiction) · cmn 維 /维 (in geometry) · de Dimension (in physics) · fr dimension (in computing) · he מֵמַד (measure of spatial extent) · bg измере́ние (in computing) · fi ulottuvuus (in geometry) · ja 寸法 (measure of spatial extent) · ro dimensiuni (measure of spatial extent) · pt dimensão (in geometry) · ro dimensiune (single aspect of a thing) · fo royvildi (measure of spatial extent) · sv dimension (in physics) · ja 次元 (in geometry) · el διάσταση (in computing) · ro dimensiune (in science fiction) · cmn 次元 (in science fiction) · el διάσταση (in science fiction) · hi विमा (measure of spatial extent) · fi mitta (in physics) · cs rozměr (in computing) · pap dimenshon (in physics) · gd tomhas (in geometry) · ja 次元 (in physics) · sv dimension (in computing) · pl wymiar (in science fiction) · nl dimensie (measure of spatial extent) · ca dimensió (in physics) · ko 치수 (measure of spatial extent) · pt dimensão (in computing) · eo dimensio (measure of spatial extent) · tl sukod (in science fiction) · el διάσταση (construct whereby objects or individuals can be distinguished) · ro dimensiune (in computing) · fi ulottuvuus (in computing) · fi dimensio (in physics) · uk ро́змір (measure of spatial extent) · hi पैमाइश (measure of spatial extent) · el διάσταση (measure of spatial extent) · be паме́р (measure of spatial extent) · et mõõde (in geometry) · fi ulottuvuus (in physics) · ro dimensiune (measure of spatial extent) · no dimensjon (in science fiction) · fy diminsje (measure of spatial extent) · ru аспе́кт (single aspect of a thing) · ga toise (measure of spatial extent) · da side (single aspect of a thing) · hi नाप (measure of spatial extent) · vi chiều không gian (in geometry) · da dimension (in geometry) · tr boyut (in geometry) · ru измере́ние (in computing) · de Dimension (measure of spatial extent) · id matra (single aspect of a thing) · bn মাত্রা (measure of spatial extent) · ko 차원 (in geometry) · tl sukod (construct whereby objects or individuals can be distinguished) · ca dimensió (in science fiction) · sl dimenzija (in science fiction) · sd ماپَ (measure of spatial extent) · fi dimensio (in science fiction) · da dimension (single aspect of a thing) · hi विमा (in geometry) · ru измере́ние (in science fiction) · sd پَهلُو (single aspect of a thing) · uk ви́мір (measure of spatial extent) · fi seikka (single aspect of a thing) · ru измере́ние (in physics) · hi माप (measure of spatial extent) · cmn 維度 /维度 (in computing) · ru измере́ние (construct whereby objects or individuals can be distinguished) · el διάσταση (in geometry) · bg аспе́кт (single aspect of a thing) · sv dimension (in geometry) · cmn 特點 /特点 (single aspect of a thing) · pl wymiar (in computing) · fo royvildi (in geometry) · uk вимір (in science fiction) · ka ასპექტი (single aspect of a thing) · is vídd (measure of spatial extent) · id matra (in geometry) · ca dimensió (measure of spatial extent) · de Dimension (in science fiction) · sv dimension (in science fiction) · bg измерение (in science fiction) · gl dimensión (measure of spatial extent) · gd tomhas (measure of spatial extent) · fi mitta (measure of spatial extent) · ru разме́р (measure of spatial extent) · nl dimensie (in physics) · id matra (measure of spatial extent) · sv dimension (construct whereby objects or individuals can be distinguished) · sl dimenzija (in computing) · cmn 方面 (single aspect of a thing) · da dimension (in science fiction) · hi मात्रा (measure of spatial extent) · ro dimensiune (in geometry) · hi पहलू (single aspect of a thing) · bg измере́ние (in physics) · gd tomhas (in computing) · ja 寸法 (in geometry) · bg разме́рност (in geometry) · pl wymiar (single aspect of a thing) · az ölçü (in geometry) · sv dimension (measure of spatial extent) · cs rozměr (measure of spatial extent) · ja 寸法 (in science fiction) · ru разме́рность (in geometry) · ckb ڕەھەند (measure of spatial extent) · de Dimension (in computing) · ja 寸法 (in physics) · grc διάστασις (in geometry) · id matra (in physics) · da dimension (measure of spatial extent) · la dimensio (in geometry) · fr dimension (construct whereby objects or individuals can be distinguished) · it aspetto (single aspect of a thing) · fr dimension (single aspect of a thing) · oc dimension (measure of spatial extent) · th มิติ (in physics) · cmn 維數 /维数 (in geometry) · pl wymiar (measure of spatial extent) · tr boyut (in science fiction) · sa परिमाण (measure of spatial extent) · sv dimension (single aspect of a thing) · ka ზომა (measure of spatial extent) · bg разме́р (measure of spatial extent) · el διάσταση (in physics) · fi mitta (construct whereby objects or individuals can be distinguished) · pt dimensão (measure of spatial extent) · tl sukod (in computing) · ka მოცულობა (measure of spatial extent) · ms dimensi (in geometry) · ga gné (single aspect of a thing) · az ölçü (measure of spatial extent) · tl sukod (in geometry) · fr dimension (in science fiction) · nl afmeting (measure of spatial extent) · hi परिमाण (measure of spatial extent) · es dimensión (measure of spatial extent) · ka სიდიდე (measure of spatial extent)