Meanings
comparative more dimensionable · superlative most dimensionable
- Capable of being measured or dimensioned.
The Staggered option forces staggered dimensions, which are like stacked continuous dimensions. This option, however, requires an even number of dimensionable objects.
2005, Ralph Grabowski, Using AutoCAD 2005, Autodesk Press, →ISBN, page 5832 more examples
And even as we, who are now in Space, look down on Flatland and see the insides of all things, so of a certainty there is yet above us some higher, purer region, […] some yet more spacious Space, some more dimensionable Dimensionality […]
1884, A Square [pseudonym; Edwin A. Abbott], Flatland […] , London: Seeley & Co., Part II: Other Worlds, § 19.— How, though the Sphere shewed me other mysteries of Spaceland, I still desire more; and what came of it, pages 85–86In retrospect, the first major hurdle was that of establishing effective mental communication between the doctor and the engineer. This entailed, among other things, the doctor's giving capsule courses of instruction on reproductive anatomy and the definition of the uterus in dimensionable terms.
1966, Paul H. Bronnenkant, “Problems of IUD Manufacture”, in Family Planning and Population Programs: A Review of World Developments, Chicago, I.L.; London: The University of Chicago Press, →ISBN, page 495
Origin
- Proto-Indo-European*dwóh₁
- Proto-Indo-European*trísinflu.
- Proto-Indo-European*d(w)is-
- Proto-Italic*dis-
- Latindis-
- Proto-Indo-European*med-
- Proto-Indo-European*meh₁-
- Proto-Italic*mētis
- Latinmētior
- Latindīmētior
- Latindīmēnsiō
- Englishdimension
- Englishdimensionable
Cite this entry
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