dimensionable
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English
Etymology
Adjective
dimensionable (comparative more dimensionable, superlative most dimensionable)
- Capable of being measured or dimensioned.
- 1884, A Square [pseudonym; Edwin A. Abbott], Flatland , London: Seeley & Co., Part II: Other Worlds, § 19.— How, though the Sphere shewed me other mysteries of Spaceland, I still desire more; and what came of it, pages 85–86:
- 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 […]
- 1966, Paul H. Bronnenkant, “Problems of IUD Manufacture”, in Family Planning and Population Programs: A Review of World Developments, Chicago, I.L., London: The University of Chicago Press, →ISBN, page 495:
- 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.
Further reading
- “dimensionable, adj.”, in OED Online
, Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.
