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dimension

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


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This apparent tension between doubt and faith may reinforce one of Serling’s most familiar and enigmatic lines: “There is a fifth dimension, beyond that which is known to man.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 15, 2026

Beyond revealing another possible dimension of Neanderthal behavior, the discovery may also have implications for modern medicine.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 11, 2026

A dimension not only of sight and sound but of mind and, in his telling, unexpected connections.

From Salon ● Oct. 10, 2026

It brought a strategic dimension to third-person action games, and also won fans with its co-operative multiplayer modes - a feature that's returned for E-Day.

From BBC ● Oct. 7, 2026

No one responds to him, either, as if he’s in the same dimension I am.

From "Ask the Passengers" by A.S. King

Because the antenna is created by a laser rather than built from a fixed metal structure, its dimensions can be adjusted by changing the laser's settings.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 9, 2026

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 two dimensions, the conformal field theories are not as well understood, so this is an exciting opportunity," Sun says.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 1, 2026

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

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 24, 2026

You know how it feels to want to escape, only to be limited by the dimensions of your personal universe.

From "Challenger Deep" by Neal Shusterman

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 details, fully dimensioned, are shown separately in figs.

From An Introduction to Machine Drawing and Design by David Allan Low

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


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