dimensionable

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adjective

Capable of being measured or dimensioned.

Scrabble 18

Meanings

adjectivedimensionable (comparative more dimensionable, superlative most dimensionable)

comparative more dimensionable · superlative most dimensionable

  1. 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 583
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    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 85–86

    In 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

  1. Proto-Indo-European*dwóh₁
  2. Proto-Indo-European*trísinflu.
  3. Proto-Indo-European*d(w)is-
  4. Proto-Italic*dis-
  5. Latindis-
  6. Proto-Indo-European*med-
  7. Proto-Indo-European*meh₁-
  8. Proto-Italic*mētis
  9. Latinmētior
  10. Latindīmētior
  11. Latindīmēnsiō
  12. Englishdimension
  13. Englishdimensionable

From dimension + -able.

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