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dimension
dimension is a 9-letter English word with 11 senses as noun and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: 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. Face value is 12 in Scrabble and 15 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
9 letters · Scrabble 12 · Words With Friends 15 · 11 senses
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- 1noun
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.
- 2noun
Extent; reach; scope; importance; as, a project of large dimensions.
- 3noun
The degree of manifoldness of a quantity; as, time is quantity having one dimension; volume has three dimensions, relative to extension.
- 4noun
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.
- 5noun
The manifoldness with which the fundamental units of time, length, and mass are involved in determining the units of other physical quantities.
- 6noun
magnitude or extent
"a building of vast proportions"
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- 7noun
the magnitude of something in a particular direction (especially length or width or height)
- 8noun
a construct whereby objects or individuals can be distinguished
"self-confidence is not an endearing property"
- 9noun
one of three Cartesian coordinates that determine a position in space
- 10verb
shape or form to required dimensions
- 11verb
indicate the dimensions on
"These techniques permit us to dimension the human heart"
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