- (n.) The manifoldness with which the fundamental units of time, length, and mass are involved in determining the units of other physical quantities.
- (n.) 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.
- (n.) 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, a2b2c is a term of five dimensions or of the fifth degree.
- (n.) Extent; reach; scope; importance; as, a project of large dimensions.
- (n.) The degree of manifoldness of a quantity; as, time is quantity having one dimension; volume has three dimensions, relative to extension.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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