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DIMENSIONAL
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Having dimension--the quality or character or stature proper to a person
Example:
never matures as a dimensional character; he is pasty, bland, faceless
Classified under:
Similar:
multidimensional (having or involving or marked by several dimensions or aspects)
Derivation:
dimensionality (the spatial property of having dimensions)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Of or relating to dimensions
Classified under:
Relational adjectives (pertainyms)
Pertainym:
dimension (the magnitude of something in a particular direction (especially length or width or height))
Derivation:
dimensionality (the spatial property of having dimensions)
Context examples:
The three-dimensional arrangement of something in space.
(Conformation, NCI Thesaurus)
The mineralized osseous tissue that gives rigidity to the bones and forms its honeycomb-like three-dimensional internal structure.
(Bone Tissue, NCI Thesaurus)
A solid or semi-solid in the shape of a three dimensional square.
(Cube Dosage Form, NCI Thesaurus)
A form of gel electrophoresis where up to three different protein samples can be labeled with fluorescent dyes prior to two-dimensional electrophoresis in the same gel.
(Differential In-Gel Electrophoresis, NCI Thesaurus)
This internal compass can help orient animals who live in a complex, dynamic three-dimensional habitat,” said Mike Sieracki, a program director in NSF's Division of Ocean Sciences.
(North Atlantic haddock use magnetic compass to guide them, National Science Foundation)
A template consisting of a two-dimensional patterning of biological molecules on a surface for biological analysis.
(Nanoarray, NCI Thesaurus)
A group of astronomers from Australia and China have built their “intuitive and accurate three-dimensional picture” by mapping the so-called “classical Cepheids.”
(Scientists Say Milky Way Is Warped & Twisted Not Flat, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)
The creation of a two-dimensional graphic representation of an area or structure, showing the relative position of features or characteristics.
(Mapping, NCI Thesaurus)
An imaginary surface formed by extension of a point through any axis or two definite points; any flat two-dimensional surface.
(Plane, NCI Thesaurus)
Similar to graphene – a two-dimensional form of carbon – FePS3 can be ‘exfoliated’ into ultra-thin layers.
(‘Magnetic graphene’ switches between insulator and conductor, University of Cambridge)
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