Dimension Meaning
/daɪˈmɛn.ʃən/Definition, CEFR level B1, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.
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Definition
nounA single aspect of a given thing.
nounA measure of spatial extent in a particular direction, such as height, width or breadth, or depth.
Sentence Examples
That adds a new dimension to our problem.
This adds a new dimension of complexity to the problem.
CEFR Practice Quiz
The artist added a third ____ to make the sculpture more realistic.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
That adds a new ____ to our problem.
Word Origin & History
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *dwóh₁ Proto-Indo-European *d(w)is- Proto-Italic *dis- Latin dis- Proto-Indo-European *meh₁- Proto-Italic *mētis Latin mētior Latin dīmētior Proto-Indo-European *-tis Proto-Indo-European *-Hō Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō Proto-Italic *-tiō Latin -tiō Latin dīmēnsiōder. English dimension Derived from Latin dīmēnsiō.
Literary Quotations & Historical Citations
"However, tubes of the same dimensions also look like solid cylinders, because their ovals are automatically treated as the top or bottom faces of solids."
— 1985 November 19, Erik Sandberg-Diment, “PERSONAL COMPUTERS; DESIGNING IS MADE EASY BY AUTOCAD”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 21 Apr 2017:
"I can tell you that in your universe you move freely in three dimensions that you call space. […] After that it gets a bit complicated, and there's all sort of stuff going on in dimensions thirteen to twenty-two that you really wouldn't want to know about."
— 1992, Douglas Adams, chapter 17, in Mostly Harmless (The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy), page 150:
"We live our lives in three dimensions for our threescore and ten allotted years. Yet every branch of contemporary science, from statistics to cosmology, alludes to processes that operate on scales outside of human experience: the millisecond and the nanometer, the eon and the light-year."
— 2012 January 26, Robert L. Dorit, “Rereading Darwin”, in American Scientist, volume 100, number 1, archived from the original on 14 Nov 2012, page 23:
""If a man should wish to be in some other place, it is entirely possible for him to imagine himself in that place and, diving back through the negative dimension, to emerge out of it in that place with instantaneous rapidity. To imagine oneself———""
— 1938 July, L. Ron Hubbard, “The Dangerous Dimension”, in Astounding Science-Fiction, volume XXI, number 5, Street & Smith, →OCLC, page 105:
"DR. PAUL MANHEIM: I have been on the other side. I have touched another dimension. Part of me is still there.
LAURA MANHEIM: Help him.
DR. CRUSHER: Try to stay calm Dr. Manheim. I don't think it's going to help you're struggling against it.
DR. PAUL MANHEIM: My mind is floating between two places. It is difficult to know which is which. There is no way to explain it."
— 1988 May 2, Rod Loomis, Michelle Phillips, Gates McFadden, We'll Always Have Paris (Star Trek: The Next Generation), Paramount Domestic Television, →OCLC:
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CEFR Practice Quiz
The artist added a third ____ to make the sculpture more realistic.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
That adds a new ____ to our problem.