Definition of dimension
- 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. - 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.
- 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. - The manifoldness with which the fundamental units of
time, length, and mass are involved in determining the units of other
physical quantities.