dimension
/dɪˈmɛn.ʃən/
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: 4.02 in modern English
12
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
3
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A measure of spatial extent in a particular direction, such as height, width or breadth, or depth.
noun
A construct whereby objects or individuals can be distinguished.
noun
The number of independent coordinates needed to specify uniquely the location of a point in a space; also, any of such independent coordinates.
noun
The number of elements of any basis of a vector space.
noun
One of the physical properties that are regarded as fundamental measures of a physical quantity, such as mass, length and time.
noun
Any of the independent ranges of indices in a multidimensional array.
Example Sentences
- "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."
- "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."
- "The dimension of velocity is length divided by 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."
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.
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /dɪˈmɛn.ʃən/
- British English: /daɪˈmɛn.ʃən/
Usage
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Phrases
3-D
3-dimensional
4-dimensional
box-counting dimension
correlation dimension
dimensional analysis
dimensional shingle
dimension lumber
Frequently Paired Words
hyperdimension