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n-dimensional en · ADJ

Pronunciation

Etymology

Etymology tree English n- 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 Proto-Italic *-ālis Latin -ālisbor. Old French -albor. ▲ Latin -ālis Old French -elbor. ▲ Latin -ālisbor. Middle English -al English -al English dimensional English n-dimensional From n- (“number”) + dimensional.

Meanings

  1. (not-comparable) Having an arbitrary number of dimensions.
    • We now have good reason to question the pursuits of the vaunted innovators with whom Liu consorted in California – the blissed-out cultists at Google, whose only worry is over “the wrong kind of sparkling water in the microkitchens”, or the manic experts who specialise in “envisioning hyperplanes in n-dimensional space”. 2020 April 7, Peter Conrad, “Abolish Silicon Valley by Wendy Liu review – rebooting our reality”, in The Guardian, archived from the original on 14 Jun 2025:

Deriveds

n-dimensional space · n-dimensional chess

Relateds

multidimensional

Translations (11)

pl n-wymiarowy (having arbitrary number of dimensions) · ru n-ме́рный (having arbitrary number of dimensions) · ro n-dimensional (having arbitrary number of dimensions) · ja N次元の (having arbitrary number of dimensions) · cmn N維的 /N维的 (having arbitrary number of dimensions) · az n-ölçülü (having arbitrary number of dimensions) · ko N차원의 (having arbitrary number of dimensions) · de n-dimensional (having arbitrary number of dimensions) · fi n-ulotteinen (having arbitrary number of dimensions) · fr n-dimensionnel (having arbitrary number of dimensions) · sv n-dimensionell (having arbitrary number of dimensions)