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English
Etymology
From Latin dīmēnsiō, dīmēnsiōnem.
Pronunciation
Noun
dimension (plural dimensions)
- A single aspect of a given thing.
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.
- A measure of spatial extent in a particular direction, such as height, width or breadth, or depth.
2012 January, Robert L. Dorit, “Rereading Darwin”, in American Scientist, volume 100, number 1, archived from the original on 14 November 2012, page 23: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.
- A construct whereby objects or individuals can be distinguished.
- (geometry) The number of independent coordinates needed to specify uniquely the location of a point in a space; also, any of such independent coordinates.
- (linear algebra) The number of elements of any basis of a vector space.
- (physics) One of the physical properties that are regarded as fundamental measures of a physical quantity, such as mass, length and time.
The dimension of velocity is length divided by time.
- (computing) Any of the independent ranges of indices in a multidimensional array.
- (science fiction, fantasy) A universe or plane of existence.
a machine that lets you travel to a parallel dimension.
1938 July, L. Ron Hubbard, “The Dangerous Dimension”, in Astounding Science-Fiction, volume XXI, number 5, Street & Smith, →OCLC, page 105:"If a man should wish to be in some other place, it is entirely possible for him to imagine himself in that place and, diving back through the negative dimension, to emerge out of it in that place with instantaneous rapidity. To imagine oneself———"
2016, A.K. Brown, Jumpstart (Champagne Universe Series: Book 1), page 2:He was experimenting with matter transportation through the nth dimension.
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measure of spatial extent
- Arabic: بُعْد (ar) m (buʕd)
- Belarusian: паме́р m (pamjér)
- Bengali: মাত্রা (bn) (matra)
- Bulgarian: разме́р (bg) m (razmér)
- Catalan: dimensió (ca) f
- Cherokee: ᏂᎦᏅᎯᏒ (niganvhisv)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 尺寸 (zh) (chǐcùn)
- Czech: rozměr (cs) m
- Danish: dimension (da) c
- Dutch: dimensie (nl) f, afmeting (nl) f
- Faroese: royvildi n
- Finnish: mitta (fi)
- French: dimension (fr) f
- Galician: dimensión (gl) f
- Georgian: სიდიდე (sidide), ზომა (zoma), მოცულობა (moculoba)
- German: Dimension (de) f
- Greek: διάσταση (el) f (diástasi)
- Hebrew: מֵמַד (he) m (mēmád)
- Hindi: विमा f (vimā), परिमाण (hi) m (parimāṇ), माप (hi) m (māp), मात्रा (hi) f (mātrā), पैमाइश (hi) f (paimāiś), नाप (hi) m (nāp)
- Icelandic: vídd (is) f
- Indonesian: matra (id)
- Irish: toise m
- Italian: dimensione (it) f
- Japanese: 面積 (ja) (めんせき, menseki), 寸法 (ja) (すんぽう, sunpō)
- Korean: 치수 (ko) (chisu)
- Kurdish:
- Central Kurdish: ڕەھەند (ckb) (rrehend)
- Occitan: dimension (oc) f
- Polish: wymiar (pl) m
- Portuguese: dimensão (pt)
- Romanian: dimensiune (ro) f, dimensiuni pl
- Russian: разме́р (ru) m (razmér)
- Sanskrit: परिमाण (sa) n (parimāṇa)
- Scottish Gaelic: tomhas m
- Sindhi: ماپَ (sd) (maapa)
- Slovene: dimenzija f
- Spanish: dimensión (es) f
- Swedish: dimension (sv) c
- Tagalog: sukod
- Ukrainian: ви́мір (uk) m (výmir), ро́змір m (rózmir)
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construct whereby objects or individuals can be distinguished
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Verb
dimension (third-person singular simple present dimensions, present participle dimensioning, simple past and past participle dimensioned)
- (transitive) To mark, cut or shape something to specified dimensions.
- (transitive, programming) To specify the size of (an array or similar data structure); to allocate.
- Hyponym: redimension
2002, James D. Foxall, Wendy Haro-Chun, SAMS Teach Yourself C# in 24 Hours, page 268:Dimension an array to hold only as much data as you intend to put into it.
Translations
to mark, cut or shape something to specified dimensions
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Danish
Noun
dimension c (singular definite dimensionen, plural indefinite dimensioner)
- dimension
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Esperanto
Noun
dimension
- accusative singular of dimensio
Finnish
Noun
dimension
- genitive singular of dimensio
French
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin dīmēnsiōnem.
Pronunciation
Noun
dimension f (plural dimensions)
- dimension
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Occitan
Etymology
From Latin dīmensio. Attested from the 14th century.
Pronunciation
Noun
dimension f (plural dimensions)
- dimension
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Swedish
Noun
dimension c
- dimension
Vad har den för dimensioner?- What are its dimensions?
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