dimensionality

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UK/daɪˌmɛn.ʃəˈnæl.ɪ.tɪ/US/dɪˌmɛn.ʃəˈnæl.ə.tɪ/US[dɪˌmɛn.ʃəˈnæl.ə.ɾɪ]US/daɪˌmɛn.ʃəˈnæl.ə.tɪ/

noun

The state or characteristic of possessing dimensions.

Less commonScrabble 20

Meanings

noundimensionality (plural dimensionalities)

plural dimensionalities

  1. The state or characteristic of possessing dimensions.
  2. computingThe number of dimensions something has.

    As well as the low dimensionality of the Bloch electron states, […]

    1995, T. Ogawa, "Dimensionality and Optical Responses of Materials", chapter 1 in, T. Ogawa and Y. Kanemitsuu, editors, Optical Properties of Low-Dimensional Materials, page 6 http://books.google.com/books?id=yToRBYgdMcMC&pg=PA6&dq=bloch
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    That is to say, it is the Analogue of Space, not in the sense in which we formerly regarded Space as the negation of Matter; but in the sense of Infinite Dimensionality, or of Dimensionality in all directions, as a vague generalization from the three spatial dimensions Length, Breadth, and Thickness.

    1864, Edward B. Freeland, "Corresponding First Discriminations in Thought and Language", article two of The Scientific Universal Language, as serialized in The Continental Monthly, number 35 (volume 6, number 5), November 1864, bound as The Continental Monthly, volume 6, page 583 http://books.google.com/books?id=w3lBAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA583&dq=dimensionality

    This often happens, for example, when a two-dimensional solution is obtained for data whose appropriate dimensionality is higher.

    1978, Joseph B. Kruskal, Myron Wish, Multidimensional Scaling, →ISBN, page 44

    Finite Dimensionality of de Rham Cohomology: Proposition 5.3.1. If the manifold M has a finite good cover, then its cohomology is finite dimensional.

    1982, Raoul Bott, Loring W. Tu, Differential Forms in Algebraic Topology, →ISBN, page 43

    The difficulties in implementing classification algorithms as is, on high volume databases, derives from the increase in the number of records/instances in the database and of attributes/features in each instance (high dimensionality).

    2010, Lior Rokach and Oded Maimon, "Supervised Learning", chapter 8 in, Oded Maimon and Lior Rokach, editors, Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery Handbook, second edition, doi:10.1007/978-0-387-09823-4, page 142 http://books.google.com/books?id=alHIsT6LBl0C&pg=PA142&dq=dimensionality

    The programming language does not impose any restrictions on the dimensionality of the arrays.

    2010, Basavaraj S. Anami, Shanmukhappa A. Angadi, Sunilkumar S. Manvi, Computer Concepts and C Programming, second, →ISBN, page 139

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. Englishdimensionality

From dimension + -ality.

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Translations

Finnish ulotteisuus, dimensionaalisuus
  • ulotteisuusstate or characteristic
  • dimensionaalisuusnumber of dimensions of something
French dimensionnalité, dimensionnalité
  • dimensionnalitéstate or characteristic
  • dimensionnaliténumber of dimensions of something
German Dimensionalität, Dimensionalität
  • Dimensionalitätstate or characteristic
  • Dimensionalitätnumber of dimensions of something
Polish liczba wymiarów
  • liczba wymiarównumber of dimensions of something
Romanian dimensionalitate, dimensionalitate
  • dimensionalitatestate or characteristic
  • dimensionalitatenumber of dimensions of something
Swedish dimensionalitet, dimensionalitet
  • dimensionalitetstate or characteristic
  • dimensionalitetnumber of dimensions of something

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