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dimension

[dih-men-shuhn, dahy-] / dɪˈmɛn ʃən, daɪ- /


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As Serling put it, “this is the dimension of imagination. It is an area which we call ‘The Twilight Zone.’”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 15, 2026

More broadly, the research points to an often overlooked dimension of evolution.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 12, 2026

“Serling” author Alan Sepinwall didn’t know it, but he was about to enter another dimension.

From Salon ● Oct. 10, 2026

Director Prakash Jha's Rajneeti in 2010 added another dimension to his acting as his portrayal of an astute politician was delivered with perfection.

From BBC ● Oct. 8, 2026

No business could be more objective than money management, and yet even in this business, facts and logic were overwhelmed by the nebulous social dimension of things.

From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis

Private assets differ from publicly traded investments on four major dimensions: fees, valuation, conflicts and liquidity.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026

In three dimensions, mathematicians have identified 17 distinct topologies that can all remain geometrically flat.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 28, 2026

He saw that three-dimensional experience was going to be rendered in two dimensions.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 24, 2026

That "really small volume" might extend through two or more hypothetical spatial dimensions that are too small for humans to detect within our 3 + 1 dimension reality.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 23, 2026

The chief strength of the proslavery argument that emerged from the Deep South delegation in the congressional debate of March 16–17 was its relentless focus on the impractical dimensions of all plans for abolition.

From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis

This has drastic consequences for the way in which flood protection must be dimensioned.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 10, 2023

U. S. Ambassador Woods called for tinned meat, condensed milk, flour, underclothing, galvanized iron, dimensioned timber to provide food and shelter for the refugees.

From Time Magazine Archive

An airshaft dimensioned like a coffin was built into the bedrooms.

From "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" by Betty Smith

The factory made elaborate detailed dimensioned drawings, marked with every permitted kind and degree of variation—as many as four hundred drawings to a single aeroplane.

From The War in the Air; Vol. 1 The Part played in the Great War by the Royal Air Force by Sir Walter Alexander Raleigh

The illustration shows how this will look and the size of the parts for the back dimensioned above.

From The Boy Mechanic: Volume 1 700 Things for Boys to Do by Popular Mechanics Co.


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