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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.



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"Dimension" Quotes from Famous Books



... in St. Petersburg are so exceptional in number and often so gigantic in dimension as to call for special mention. The monolith obelisks of ancient Egypt are scarcely more remarkable. In addition to the magnificent columns, each sixty feet high, which sustain the four porticos of the Cathedral of St. Isaac, are fifty-six monoliths, ...
— Russia - As Seen and Described by Famous Writers • Various
... dimension of suffering, and lending a strong hand to those overwhelmed by calamity, our soldiers raised up the defeated from the sore battle ...
— The True Story of Our National Calamity of Flood, Fire and Tornado • Logan Marshall
... are in general very narrow, and are of very various degrees of elevation, probably from 3000 to 6000 feet of perpendicular height above the plains of Puraniya. Of course, they differ very much in their temperature; so that some of them abound in the ratan and bamboo, both of enormous dimension, while others produce only oaks and pines. Some ripen the pine-apple and sugar-cane, while others produce only barley, ...
— An Account of The Kingdom of Nepal • Fancis Buchanan Hamilton
... literature from the seventeenth to the twentieth century; and the only rejoinders that the harassed author can make are the rather lame ones that a book, to be a book, must conform to the mechanical laws of space and dimension, and that a serious attempt on the part of the present writer to make a synthesis of social and political facts precludes no effort on the part of other and abler writers to synthesize all these facts with the phenomena which are conventionally assigned to the realm of "cultural" ...
— A Political and Social History of Modern Europe V.1. • Carlton J. H. Hayes
... a mystery? Is Archy Stillman a mystery?" said Wells-Fargo's man, Ferguson. "Why, the fourth dimension's foolishness to him." ...
— A Double Barrelled Detective Story • Mark Twain


Words linked to "Dimension" :   width, shape, time, breadth, Cartesian coordinate, construct, quality, fourth dimension, concept, third dimension, length, property, attribute, tenuity, proportion, feature, feature of speech, tallness, characteristic, mark, form, thinness, slenderness, thickness, character, conception, height, lineament, magnitude


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