dimensionable
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
18
Scrabble Score
13
Letters
4
Syllables
10
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Capable of being measured or dimensioned.
Example Sentences
- "And even as we, who are now in Space, look down on Flatland and see the insides of all things, so of a certainty there is yet above us some higher, purer region, […] some yet more spacious Space, some more dimensionable Dimensionality […]"
- "In retrospect, the first major hurdle was that of establishing effective mental communication between the doctor and the engineer. This entailed, among other things, the doctor's giving capsule courses of instruction on reproductive anatomy and the definition of the uterus in dimensionable terms."
- "The Staggered option forces staggered dimensions, which are like stacked continuous dimensions. This option, however, requires an even number of dimensionable objects."
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 Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlom Proto-Italic *-ðlom Proto-Italic *-ðlis Latin -bilis Latin -ābilis Old French -ablebor. Middle English -able English -able English dimensionable From dimension + -able.
Inflected Forms
more dimensionable (comparative)
most dimensionable (superlative)