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Dimension   /dɪmˈɛnʃən/   Listen
Dimension

noun
1.
The magnitude of something in a particular direction (especially length or width or height).
2.
A construct whereby objects or individuals can be distinguished.  Synonyms: attribute, property.
3.
One of three Cartesian coordinates that determine a position in space.
4.
Magnitude or extent.  Synonym: proportion.
verb
1.
Indicate the dimensions on.
2.
Shape or form to required dimensions.



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"Dimension" Quotes from Famous Books



... experience had taught her to suspect them. As was the custom in that locality, the water supply depended on a rickety windwheel. It was with a dark foreboding that she returned to the kitchen and turned on one of the taps. For perhaps three seconds a stream of the dimension of a darning-needle emerged, then with a sad gurgle the tap relapsed into a stolid inaction. There is no stolidity so utter as that of a ...
— Uneasy Money • P.G. Wodehouse
... universally valid utterances of the primitive heart. The accompanying measurement according to the epic rules and models was not a qualification of the taste, but only a somewhat awkward theoretical dimension and justification. ...
— Parodies of Ballad Criticism (1711-1787) • William Wagstaffe
... a body, where it finds number, time, dimension. Thereupon it reasons, and calls this nature, necessity, and can ...
— Pascal's Pensees • Blaise Pascal
... to the repetition of the act—to the progress of the child. What interests the child is the sensation, not only of placing the objects but of acquiring a new power of perception, enabling him to recognize the difference of dimension in the cylinders, a difference which he did not at first notice. The problem presents itself solely in connection with the error, it does not accompany the normal process of development. An interest stimulated merely by curiosity, by a "problem," ...
— Spontaneous Activity in Education • Maria Montessori
... distinctly practical. You are only trying to prove a fourth dimension, when three have sufficed the ...
— Bambi • Marjorie Benton Cooke


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