dimensional
English
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Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation, General American, Canada) IPA(key): /daɪˈmɛn.ʃə.nəl/, [daɪˈmɛn.ʃə.nɫ̩], /dɪˈmɛn.ʃə.nəl/, [dɪˈmɛn.ʃə.nɫ̩]
Audio (Southern England): (file) - (Australia) IPA(key): /dɪˈmen.ʃə.nəl/, [dɪˈmen.ʃə.nɫ̩], /dɑeˈmen.ʃə.nəl/, [dɑeˈmen.ʃə.nɫ̩]
- (Australia) IPA(key): /dəˈmen.ʃə.nəl/, [dəˈmen.ʃə.nɫ̩], /dɑeˈmen.ʃə.nəl/, [dɑeˈmen.ʃə.nɫ̩]
- Hyphenation: di‧men‧sion‧al, di‧men‧sional
Adjective
dimensional (comparative more dimensional, superlative most dimensional)
- Of or pertaining to dimensions.
- (comparable) Having dimension or dimensions; three-dimensional.
- 1926, Hart Crane, For the Marriage of Faustus and Helen:
- There is the world dimensional for those untwisted by the love of things irreconcilable
- (mathematics) Appended to cardinal numbers or algebraic symbols to form adjectives meaning "having the stated number of dimensions".
- 1996, Richard Courant with Herbert Robbins and Ian Stewart, What is Mathematics?: An Elementary Approach to Ideas and Methods, page 227:
- What is the meaning of an n-dimensional space when n is greater than three, and what purposes can it serve?
- Pertaining to dimensional lumber: having a standardized, nominal width and depth, which may differ from the actual width and depth.
- dimensional boards, dimensional sizes, dimensional wood
Usage notes
- Often used as a combining form.
Hyponyms
- codimensional
- dimensionalization
- dimensionalize
- dimensionally
- eleven-dimensional (11-dimensional)
- equidimensional
- finite-dimensional
- five-dimensional (5-dimensional)
- four-dimensional (4-dimensional)
- heterodimensional
- higher-dimensional
- hyperdimensional
- infinite-dimensional
- intradimensional
- microdimensional
- monodimensional
- multidimensional
- n-dimensional
- omnidimensional
- one-dimensional (1-dimensional)
- pandimensional
- polydimensional
- subdimensional
- three-dimensional (3-dimensional)
- top-dimensional
- transdimensional
- tridim
- trimensional
- two-dimensional (2-dimensional)
- zero-dimensional (0-dimensional)
Derived terms
- codimensional/co-dimensional
- dimensional analysis
- dimensionalization/dimensionalisation
- dimensionalize/dimensionalise
- dimensional lumber
- dimensionally
- dimensional shingle
- dimensional stability
- dimensional stone
- eleven-dimensional (11-dimensional)
- equidimensional
- extradimensional/extra-dimensional
- finite-dimensional
- five-dimensional (5-dimensional)
- four-dimensional (4-dimensional)
- heterodimensional
- higher-dimensional
- hyperdimensional/hyper-dimensional
- infinite-dimensional
- interdimensional/inter-dimensional
- intradimensional/intra-dimensional
- lowdimensional
- microdimensional
- monodimensional
- multidimensional/multi-dimensional
- multi-dimensional chess
- n-dimensional
- n-dimensional chess
- nondimensional/non-dimensional
- omnidimensional/omni-dimensional
- one-dimensional (1-dimensional)
- otherdimensional
- otherdimensional/other-dimensional
- overdimensional/over-dimensional
- pandimensional/pan-dimensional
- pluridimensional
- polydimensional/poly-dimensional
- subdimensional/sub-dimensional
- three-dimensional (3-dimensional)
- top-dimensional
- transdimensional/trans-dimensional
- tridim
- trimensional
- two-dimensional (2-dimensional)
- two dimensional bilayer ice I
- ultradimensional
- zero-dimensional (0-dimensional)
Translations
having a stated number of dimensions
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Catalan
Etymology
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): (Northern, Central) [di.mən.si.uˈnal]
- IPA(key): (Balearic) [di.mən.si.oˈnal]
- IPA(key): (Valencia, Northwestern) [di.men.si.oˈnal]
Adjective
dimensional m or f (masculine and feminine plural dimensionals)
Further reading
- “dimensional”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007
- “dimensional”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2026
- “dimensional” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
- Alcover, Antoni Maria; Moll, Francesc de Borja (1963), “dimensional”, in Diccionari català-valencià-balear (in Catalan)
Galician
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Adjective
dimensional m or f (plural dimensionais)
Further reading
- “dimensional”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, 2012–2026
German
Pronunciation
Adjective
dimensional (strong nominative masculine singular dimensionaler, not comparable)
Declension
Hyponyms
Further reading
- “dimensional”, in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache[1] (in German)
- “dimensional” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon
Portuguese
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Portuguese dimensão, dimensões
Portuguese dimensional
From dimensão, dimensões + -al.
Pronunciation
- (Brazil) IPA(key): /d͡ʒi.mẽ.si.oˈnaw/ [d͡ʒi.mẽ.si.oˈnaʊ̯], (faster) /d͡ʒi.mẽ.sjoˈnaw/ [d͡ʒi.mẽ.sjoˈnaʊ̯]
- (Portugal) IPA(key): /di.mẽ.sjuˈnal/ [di.mẽ.sjuˈnaɫ]
- (Southern Portugal) IPA(key): /di.mẽ.sjuˈna.li/
- Rhymes: (Portugal) -al, (Brazil) -aw
- Hyphenation: di‧men‧si‧o‧nal
Adjective
dimensional m or f (plural dimensionais)
Further reading
- “dimensional”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026
- “dimensional”, in Dicionário inFormal (in Portuguese), 2006–2026
- “dimensional”, in Dicionário Infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2026
- “dimensional”, in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), São Paulo: Editora Melhoramentos, 2015–2026, →ISBN
- “dimensional”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026
Romanian
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Borrowed from German dimensional or French dimensionnel. By surface analysis, dimensiune + -al.
Adjective
dimensional m or n (feminine singular dimensională, masculine plural dimensionali, feminine/neuter plural dimensionale)
Declension
| singular | plural | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| masculine | neuter | feminine | masculine | neuter | feminine | ||
| nominative- accusative |
indefinite | dimensional | dimensională | dimensionali | dimensionale | ||
| definite | dimensionalul | dimensionala | dimensionalii | dimensionalele | |||
| genitive- dative |
indefinite | dimensional | dimensionale | dimensionali | dimensionale | ||
| definite | dimensionalului | dimensionalei | dimensionalilor | dimensionalelor | |||
Spanish
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Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /dimensjoˈnal/ [d̪i.mẽn.sjoˈnal]
- Rhymes: -al
- Syllabification: di‧men‧sio‧nal
Adjective
dimensional m or f (masculine and feminine plural dimensionales)
Derived terms
Further reading
- “dimensional”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), 24th edition, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 30 October 2026
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