dimension
/dɪˈmɛn.ʃən/ noun B2- A single aspect of a given thing.
- A measure of spatial extent in a particular direction, such as height, width or breadth, or depth.
- A construct whereby objects or individuals can be distinguished.
- The number of independent coordinates needed to specify uniquely the location of a point in a space; also, any of such independent coordinates.
- The number of elements of any basis of a vector space.
- 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.
- Any of the independent ranges of indices in a multidimensional array.
- A universe or plane of existence. · a machine that lets you travel to a parallel dimension.
Plural dimensions
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She related the subjects of the pictures, the dimensions of the rooms, and the price of the furniture in vain.
The builder cheerfully undertook the commission, and promised to have these secret places completed by the next day, Dantès furnishing the dimensions and plan in accordance with which they were to be constructed.
Scarcely, therefore, had the reflective Franz walked a hundred steps beneath the interior porticoes of the ruin, when, abandoning Albert to the guides (who would by no means yield their prescriptive right of carrying their victims through the routine regularly laid down, and as regularly followed by them, but dragged the unconscious visitor to the various objects with a pertinacity that admitted of no appeal, beginning, as a matter of course, with the “Lions’ Den”, the “Hall of the Gladiators” and finishing with “Cæsar’s Podium”), to escape a jargon and mechanical survey of the wonders by which he was surrounded, Franz ascended a half-dilapidated staircase, and, leaving them to follow their monotonous round, seated himself at the foot of a column, and immediately opposite a large aperture, which permitted him to enjoy a full and undisturbed view of the gigantic dimensions of the majestic ruin.
But that which completed the almost masculine look Morcerf found so little to his taste, was a dark mole, of much larger dimensions than these freaks of nature generally are, placed just at the corner of her mouth; and the effect tended to increase the expression of self-dependence that characterized her countenance.
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