dimension : Idioms & Phrases


Dimension lumber, Dimension scantling, ∨ Dimension stock

  • (Carp.), lumber for building, etc., cut to the sizes usually in demand, or to special sizes as ordered.
Webster 1913

Dimension stone

  • stone delivered from the quarry rough, but brought to such sizes as are requisite for cutting to dimensions given.
Webster 1913

fourth dimension

  • noun the fourth coordinate that is required (along with three spatial dimensions) to specify a physical event
    time.
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Space of dimension

  • extension that has length but no breadth or thickness; a straight or curved line.
Webster 1913

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.
Webster 1913

Space of three dimensions

  • extension which has length, breadth, and thickness; a solid.
Webster 1913

Space of two dimensions

  • extension which has length and breadth, but no thickness; a plane or curved surface.
Webster 1913

third dimension

  • noun the dimension whereby a solid object differs from a two-dimensional drawing of it
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