Dimension
Definition of Dimension
Di`men´sion | n. | 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. | | 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, a2b2c is a term of five dimensions, or of the fifth degree. | | 5. | (Phys.) The manifoldness with which the fundamental units of time, length, and mass are involved in determining the units of other physical quantities. |
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