Word Meanings - DIMENSION - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The degree of manifoldness of a quantity; as, time is quantity having one dimension; volume has three dimensions, relative to extension. (more info) to measure out; di- = dis- + metiri to measure: cf. F. dimension. See 1. Measure in a single line,

Additional info about word: DIMENSION

The degree of manifoldness of a quantity; as, time is quantity having one dimension; volume has three dimensions, relative to extension. (more info) to measure out; di- = dis- + metiri to measure: cf. F. dimension. See 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.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of DIMENSION)

• Bulk
• Mass
• whole
• entirety
• integrity
• majority
• size
• magnitude
• extension
• body
• volume
• bigness
• largeness
• massiveness
• dimension
• Size
• Greatness
• extent
• bulk

Related words: (words related to DIMENSION)

• VOLUMENOMETRY
  The method or process of measuring volumes by means of the volumenometer.
• VOLUMENOMETER
  An instrument for measuring the volume of a body, especially a solid, by means of the difference in tension caused by its presence and absence in a confined portion of air.
• INTEGRITY
  1. The state or quality of being entire or complete; wholeness; entireness; unbroken state; as, the integrity of an empire or territory. Sir T. More. 2. Moral soundness; honesty; freedom from corrupting influence or motive; -- used especially with
• VOLUMETRIC
  Of or pertaining to the measurement of volume. Volumetric analysis , that system of the quantitative analysis of solutions which employs definite volumes of standardized solutions of reagents, as measured by burettes, pipettes, etc.; also, the
• WHOLENESS
  The quality or state of being whole, entire, or sound; entireness; totality; completeness.
• VOLUMETER
  An instrument for measuring the volumes of gases or liquids by introducing them into a vessel of known capacity.
• WHOLE-HOOFED
  Having an undivided hoof, as the horse.
• DIMENSIONAL
  Pertaining to dimension.
• WHOLESALE
  1. Pertaining to, or engaged in, trade by the piece or large quantity; selling to retailers or jobbers rather than to consumers; as, a wholesale merchant; the wholesale price. 2. Extensive and indiscriminate; as, wholesale slaughter. "A time for
• DIMENSION
  The degree of manifoldness of a quantity; as, time is quantity having one dimension; volume has three dimensions, relative to extension. (more info) to measure out; di- = dis- + metiri to measure: cf. F. dimension. See 1. Measure in a single line,
• MASSIVENESS
  The state or quality of being massive; massiness.
• WHOLE-SOULED
  Thoroughly imbued with a right spirit; noble-minded; devoted.
• GREATNESS
  1. The state, condition, or quality of being great; as, greatness of size, greatness of mind, power, etc. 2. Pride; haughtiness. It is not of pride or greatness that he cometh not aboard your ships. Bacon.
• EXTENSIONIST
  One who favors or advocates extension.
• EXTENSION
  That property of a body by which it occupies a portion of space. (more info) 1. The act of extending or the state of being extended; a stretching out; enlargement in breadth or continuation of length; increase; augmentation; expansion.
• MAGNITUDE
  That which has one or more of the three dimensions, length, breadth, and thickness. 3. Anything of which greater or less can be predicated, as time, weight, force, and the like. 4. Greatness; grandeur. "With plain, heroic magnitude of mind." Milton.
• ENTIRETY
  1. The state of being entire; completeness; as, entirely of interest. Blackstone. 2. That which is entire; the whole. Bacon.
• VOLUMETRICAL
  Volumetric. -- Vol`u*met"ric*al*ly, adv.
• DIMENSIONED
  Having dimensions.
• EXTENT
  1. Space or degree to which a thing is extended; hence, superficies; compass; bulk; size; length; as, an extent of country or of line; extent of information or of charity. Life in its large extent is scare a span. Cotton. 2. Degree; measure;
• UNIVERSITY EXTENSION
  The extension of the advantages of university instruction by means of lectures and classes at various centers.
• COEXTENSION
  The act of extending equally, or the state of being equally extended.
• INEXTENSION
  Want of extension; unextended state.
• UNWHOLE
  Not whole; unsound.
• WHOLE
  healthy; akin to OFries. & OS. h, D. heel, G. heil, Icel. heill, Sw. hel whole, Dan. heel, Goth. hails well, sound, OIr. c augury. Cf. 1. Containing the total amount, number, etc.; comprising all the parts; free from deficiency; all; total; entire;