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Definition of Dimension

Dimension Measure in a single line, as length, breadth, height, thickness, or circumference; extension; measurement; -- usually, in the plural, measure in length and breadth, or in length, breadth, and thickness; extent; size; as, the dimensions of a room, or of a ship; the dimensions of a farm, of a kingdom. Extent; reach; scope; importance; as, a project of large dimensions. The degree of manifoldness of a quantity; as, time is quantity having one dimension; volume has three dimensions, relative to extension. A literal factor, as numbered in characterizing a term. The term dimensions forms with the cardinal numbers a phrase equivalent to degree with the ordinal; thus, a2b2c is a term of five dimensions, or of the fifth degree. The manifoldness with which the fundamental units of time, length, and mass are involved in determining the units of other physical quantities. Related Definitions: And, Are, As, Breadth, Cardinal, Characterizing, Circumference, Degree, Determining, Dimension, Equivalent, Extension, Extent, Factor, Farm, Fifth, Five, Fundamental, Having, Height, Has, Importance, In, Involved, Is, Kingdom, Large, Length, Line, Literal, Manifoldness, Mass, Measure, Measurement, Numbered, Numbers, Of, One, Or, Ordinal, Other, Phrase, Physical, Plural, Project, Quantities, Quantity, Reach, Relative, Room, Scope, Ship, Single, Size, Term, The, Thickness, Three, Thus, Time, To, Volume, Which, With

Dimension Quotations Our soul is cast into a body, where it finds number, time, dimension. Thereupon it reasons, and calls this nature necessity, and can believe nothing else. Blaise Pascal Design in art, is a recognition of the relation between various things, various elements in the creative flux. You can't invent a design. You recognize it, in the fourth dimension. That is, with your blood and your bones, as well as with your eyes. David Herbert Lawrence We have created characters and animated them in the dimension of depth, revealing through them to our perturbed world that the things we have in common far outnumber and outweigh those that divide us. Walt Disney As soon as man began considering himself the source of the highest meaning in the world and the measure of everything, the world began to lose its human dimension, and man began to lose control of it. Vaclav Havel One of the first groups we signed was the Fifth Dimension. Johnny Rivers

Dimension Translations dimension in Afrikaans is grootte, dimensie, afmeting dimension in Dutch is grootte, bestek, omvang dimension in Finnish is laajuus, ulottuvuus dimension in French is ampleur, envergure, dimension dimension in Norwegian is dimensjon dimension in Swedish is dimension

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