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English
Etymology
From multi- + dimensional.
Pronunciation
Adjective
multidimensional (not comparable)
- Having multiple dimensions (aspects).
1996, Raya Dunayevskaya, Women's Liberation and the Dialectics of Revolution, →ISBN, page 230:Rosa's whole life as a revolutionary, as a theoretician, as a multidimensional woman, was so preoccupied with the spontaneity of revolution […]
- (mathematics) Having more than two dimensions.
- Crossing through or existing in multiple dimensions (spacial planes).
1998, Judith Bennett, Sex Signs, →ISBN, page 336:The Cosmic Woman is an integrated, multidimensional woman who has crossed both the Zodiacal and cosmic planes.
Synonyms
Derived terms
Translations
having more than two dimensions
Noun
multidimensional (plural multidimensionals)
- (science fiction, New Age religion) a being that exists in more than one dimension
Galician
Etymology
From multi- + dimensional.
Adjective
multidimensional m or f (plural multidimensionais)
- multidimensional, pluridimensional
- Synonym: pluridimensional
Portuguese
Etymology
From multi- + dimensional.
Pronunciation
- (Brazil) IPA(key): /ˌmuw.t͡ʃi.d͡ʒi.mẽ.si.oˈnaw/ , (faster pronunciation) /ˌmuw.t͡ʃi.d͡ʒi.mẽ.sjoˈnaw/
- (Portugal) IPA(key): /ˌmul.ti.di.mẽ.sjuˈnal/
- (Southern Portugal) IPA(key): /ˌmul.ti.di.mẽ.sjuˈna.li/
- Rhymes: (Brazil) -aw, (Portugal) -al
- Hyphenation: mul‧ti‧di‧men‧si‧o‧nal
Adjective
multidimensional m or f (plural multidimensionais)
- multidimensional, pluridimensional
- Synonym: pluridimensional
Derived terms
Further reading
- “multidimensional”, in iDicionário Aulete (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2025
- “multidimensional”, in Dicionário inFormal (in Portuguese), 2006–2025
- “multidimensional”, in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2025
- “multidimensional”, in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), São Paulo: Editora Melhoramentos, 2015–2025
- “multidimensional”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2025
Romanian
Etymology
Borrowed from French multidimensionnel. By surface analysis, multi- + dimensional.
Adjective
multidimensional m or n (feminine singular multidimensională, masculine plural multidimensionali, feminine and neuter plural multidimensionale)
- multidimensional
Declension
Spanish
Etymology
From multi- + dimensional.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /multidimensjoˈnal/
- Rhymes: -al
- Syllabification: mul‧ti‧di‧men‧sio‧nal
Adjective
multidimensional m or f (masculine and feminine plural multidimensionales)
- (geometry) multidimensional, pluridimensional
- Synonym: pluridimensional
2015 July 23, ““Sólo el 2% de universitarios africanos estudia agricultura””, in El País:A nivel nacional estamos trabajando con varios países en la elaboración de estudios país multidimensionales como en Uruguay y Costa de Marfil.- (please add an English translation of this quotation)