Dimensional
adjective
Relating to size, length, width, and depth.
A three-dimensional shape has height, width and depth.
Often appears as...
- three-dimensional
- two-dimensional
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Technical
adjective
Relating to an aspect or feature of a situation, problem, or thing.
She considers the problem from multiple dimensions.
Often appears as...
- multi-dimensional
- one-dimensional
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Academic
adjective
Relating to the measurement of the size or distance of something.
These are the dimensions of the room.
Often appears as...
- room dimensions
- package dimensions
adjective
In physics, relating to any of the four measurable properties of time, length, width, and depth.
The fourth dimension is often considered to be time.
Often appears as...
- fourth dimension
- space-time dimension
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Technical
adjective
Relating to size, length, width, and depth.
A three-dimensional shape has height, width and depth.
Often appears as...
- three-dimensional
- two-dimensional
Usage tips
Technical
adjective
Relating to an aspect or feature of a situation, problem, or thing.
She considers the problem from multiple dimensions.
Often appears as...
- multi-dimensional
- one-dimensional
Usage tips
Academic
adjective
Relating to the measurement of the size or distance of something.
These are the dimensions of the room.
Often appears as...
- room dimensions
- package dimensions
adjective
In physics, relating to any of the four measurable properties of time, length, width, and depth.
The fourth dimension is often considered to be time.
Often appears as...
- fourth dimension
- space-time dimension
Usage tips
Technical
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Pro Tip 1/2Shape Perception
Describes objects as we perceive them in the real world, with volume and space.
Architects create models to visualize the three-dimensional aspects of buildings.
Pro Tip 2/2Graphical Depth
Used in art and design to suggest a form has depth on a flat surface.
Cartoon characters are often drawn in a two-dimensional style.
Pro Tip 1/2Shape Perception
Describes objects as we perceive them in the real world, with volume and space.
Architects create models to visualize the three-dimensional aspects of buildings.
Pro Tip 2/2Graphical Depth
Used in art and design to suggest a form has depth on a flat surface.
Cartoon characters are often drawn in a two-dimensional style.
Pro Tip 1/2Shape Perception
Describes objects as we perceive them in the real world, with volume and space.
Architects create models to visualize the three-dimensional aspects of buildings.
Pro Tip 2/2Graphical Depth
Used in art and design to suggest a form has depth on a flat surface.
Cartoon characters are often drawn in a two-dimensional style.
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Don Tapscott: Four...
didn't come from geologists. They came from computer scientists, engineers. The winner was a computer graphics company that built a three dimensional model of the mine where you can helicopter underground and see where the gold is. He helped us understand that social media's becoming social production. It's not about hooking up online.
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Marcus du Sautoy:...
To be able to make predictions about the fundamental particles we might see there, it seems that they are all facets of some strange symmetrical shape in a higher dimensional space. And I think Galileo summed up, very nicely, the power of mathematics to understand the scientific world around us.
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Science can answer moral...
A lot of people want to believe in this concept of moral progress. But can you reconcile that? I think I understood you to say that you could reconcile that with a world that doesn't become one dimensional, where we all have to think the same. Paint your picture of what
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What is the universe...
In these proposed models, vibrating strings are the building blocks of the universe. Competing models for strings have now been consolidated into a unified description, and suggest these structures may interact with massive, higher dimensional surfaces called branes.
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How your brain's...
in a way that matters for your life, you have to understand how it's influenced by context. Let me show you what I mean. There's a great test that we use in the lab to measure executive function in young children called the "dimensional change card sort."
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The birth of a word -...
correction and then we can bring it into a three dimensional life so welcome to my home this is a moment one moment captured across multiple cameras the reason we did this is to create the ultimate memory machine where you can go
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The Case for Radically...
How did it all become so two dimensional, so simplistic and devoid of character? Well, it turns out, I'm not the only one who's alarmed by what's happening in our towns and cities. There's research showing
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A teen just trying to...
my blog and I have said that I wanted to start a website for teenage girls that was not this kind of one dimensional strong character empowerment thing because I think one thing that can be
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Mind-blowing illusions PIPE...
flat world of the second the exacta need two dimensional universe universe with me leaving only visible
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The Worth of Water PIPE...
dimensional cycle metabolism on smooth work mentors will demand some help
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Don Tapscott: Four...
didn't come from geologists. They came from computer scientists, engineers. The winner was a computer graphics company that built a three dimensional model of the mine where you can helicopter underground and see where the gold is. He helped us understand that social media's becoming social production. It's not about hooking up online.
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Marcus du Sautoy:...
To be able to make predictions about the fundamental particles we might see there, it seems that they are all facets of some strange symmetrical shape in a higher dimensional space. And I think Galileo summed up, very nicely, the power of mathematics to understand the scientific world around us.
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Science can answer moral...
A lot of people want to believe in this concept of moral progress. But can you reconcile that? I think I understood you to say that you could reconcile that with a world that doesn't become one dimensional, where we all have to think the same. Paint your picture of what
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What is the universe...
In these proposed models, vibrating strings are the building blocks of the universe. Competing models for strings have now been consolidated into a unified description, and suggest these structures may interact with massive, higher dimensional surfaces called branes.
Video examples
How your brain's...
in a way that matters for your life, you have to understand how it's influenced by context. Let me show you what I mean. There's a great test that we use in the lab to measure executive function in young children called the "dimensional change card sort."
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The birth of a word -...
correction and then we can bring it into a three dimensional life so welcome to my home this is a moment one moment captured across multiple cameras the reason we did this is to create the ultimate memory machine where you can go
Video examples
The Case for Radically...
How did it all become so two dimensional, so simplistic and devoid of character? Well, it turns out, I'm not the only one who's alarmed by what's happening in our towns and cities. There's research showing
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A teen just trying to...
my blog and I have said that I wanted to start a website for teenage girls that was not this kind of one dimensional strong character empowerment thing because I think one thing that can be
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Mind-blowing illusions PIPE...
flat world of the second the exacta need two dimensional universe universe with me leaving only visible
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The Worth of Water PIPE...
dimensional cycle metabolism on smooth work mentors will demand some help
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Frei Otto
German Architect
Most architects think in drawings, or did think in drawings; today, they think on the computer monitor. I always tried to think three dimensionally. The interior eye of the brain should be not flat but three dimensional so that everything is an object in space. We are not living in a two-dimensional world.
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Justin Lin
American Director
For the longest time, the Asian-American community would talk about representation, but I think it's also about the freedom to really shape, create, and explore issues that are important to us, regardless of whether it's positive or negative, as long as it's three dimensional.
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Zack Snyder
American Director
Origin stories are really important to me. I just like that sort of stuff and I feel like it makes a lot of sense to the guys, who they are. If you don't have that stuff, it's kind of a one dimensional version of it.
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Laurence Fishburne
American Actor
I certainly believe that being in contact with one's spirit and nurturing one's spirit is as important as nurturing one's body and mind. We are three dimensional beings: body, mind, spirit.
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Kirti Kulhari
Indian Actress
In Bollywood, everything is very one dimensional. This is a girl: she laughs a lot, is forever happy, chirpy, and that's all she is doing throughout the film. That's not how we are.
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Lydia Leonard
English Actress
Television's so quick, and there's so many other fun elements to it, but you don't get such good scripts and the time to really make much more three dimensional characters.
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Elizabeth Debicki
Australian Actress
Often, female characters are quite one dimensional, especially in a two hour film; television gives characters room to breathe and develop.
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Jonathan Ive
English Designer
That's just tragic, that you can spend four years of your life studying the design of three dimensional objects and not make one.
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Ruth Bradley
Irish Actress
I don't know any woman who's one dimensional, not a single one.
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Dan Auerbach
American Musician
The modern video games kind of - they're too three dimensional.
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Frei Otto
German Architect
Most architects think in drawings, or did think in drawings; today, they think on the computer monitor. I always tried to think three dimensionally. The interior eye of the brain should be not flat but three dimensional so that everything is an object in space. We are not living in a two-dimensional world.
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Justin Lin
American Director
For the longest time, the Asian-American community would talk about representation, but I think it's also about the freedom to really shape, create, and explore issues that are important to us, regardless of whether it's positive or negative, as long as it's three dimensional.
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Zack Snyder
American Director
Origin stories are really important to me. I just like that sort of stuff and I feel like it makes a lot of sense to the guys, who they are. If you don't have that stuff, it's kind of a one dimensional version of it.
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Laurence Fishburne
American Actor
I certainly believe that being in contact with one's spirit and nurturing one's spirit is as important as nurturing one's body and mind. We are three dimensional beings: body, mind, spirit.
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Kirti Kulhari
Indian Actress
In Bollywood, everything is very one dimensional. This is a girl: she laughs a lot, is forever happy, chirpy, and that's all she is doing throughout the film. That's not how we are.
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Lydia Leonard
English Actress
Television's so quick, and there's so many other fun elements to it, but you don't get such good scripts and the time to really make much more three dimensional characters.
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Elizabeth Debicki
Australian Actress
Often, female characters are quite one dimensional, especially in a two hour film; television gives characters room to breathe and develop.
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Jonathan Ive
English Designer
That's just tragic, that you can spend four years of your life studying the design of three dimensional objects and not make one.
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Ruth Bradley
Irish Actress
I don't know any woman who's one dimensional, not a single one.
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Dan Auerbach
American Musician
The modern video games kind of - they're too three dimensional.
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