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Webster 1913 Edition
Dimension
Di-men′sion
,Noun.
[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
is a term of five dimensions, or of the fifth degree. 2
b2
c Dimensional lumber
, Dimension lumber
, Dimension scantling
, or
Dimension stock
(Carp.)
, lumber for building, etc., cut to the sizes usually in demand, or to special sizes as ordered.
– Dimension stone
, stone delivered from the quarry rough, but brought to such sizes as are requisite for cutting to dimensions given.
Webster 1828 Edition
Dimension
DIMENSION
,Noun.