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2 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Dimension \Di*men"sion\, n. [L. dimensio, fr dimensus p. p. of dimetiri to measure out di- = dis- + metiri to measure: cf F. dimension. See {Measure}.] 1. Measure in a single line as length, breadth, height, thickness, or circumference; extension; measurement; -- usually, in the plural, measure in length and breadth, or in length, breadth, and thickness; extent; size; as the dimensions of a room or of a ship; the dimensions of a farm, of a kingdom. Gentlemen of more than ordinary dimensions. --W. Irving. {Space of dimension}, extension that has length but no breadth or thickness; a straight or curved line {Space of two dimensions}, extension which has length and breadth, but no thickness; a plane or curved surface. {Space of three dimensions}, extension which has length, breadth, and thickness; a solid. {Space of four dimensions}, as imaginary kind of extension, which is assumed to have length, breadth, thickness, and also a fourth imaginary dimension. Space of five or six or more dimensions is also sometimes assumed in mathematics. 2. Extent; reach; scope; importance; as a project of large dimensions. 3. (Math.) The degree of manifoldness of a quantity; as time is quantity having one dimension; volume has three dimensions, relative to extension. 4. (Alg.) A literal factor, as numbered in characterizing a term. The term dimensions forms with the cardinal numbers a phrase equivalent to degree with the ordinal; thus a^{2}b^{2}c is a term of five dimensions, or of the fifth degree. 5. pl (Phys.) The manifoldness with which the fundamental units of time, length, and mass are involved in determining the units of other physical quantities. Note: Thus since the unit of velocity varies directly as the unit of length and inversely as the unit of time, the dimensions of velocity are said to be length [divby] time; the dimensions of work are mass [times] (length)^{2} [divby] (time)^{2}; the dimensions of density are mass [divby] (length)^{3}. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: dimension n 1: a measure of the size of something in a particular direction esp length or width or height 2: a construct whereby objects or individuals can be distinguished; "self-confidence is not an endearing property" [syn: {property}, {attribute}] 3: one of three coordinates that determine a position in space 4: magnitude or extent; "a building of vast proportions" [syn: {proportion}] v 1: indicate the dimensions on "These techniques permit us to dimension the human heart" 2: shape or form to required dimensions
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