Meanings
adjectiveheterodimensional (not comparable)
- not comparableOccupying different dimensions
These constructions also provide a new method to create C²-robust homoclinic, equidimensional and heterodimensional tangencies of large codimension in dimension d#92;geq 4.
2015, Pablo G. Barrientos, Artem Raibekas, “Robust cycles and tangencies of large codimension”, in arXiv
Origin
- Proto-Indo-European*sem-
- Proto-Indo-European*sḿ̥teros
- Proto-Hellenic*hə́teros
- Ancient Greekἕτερος (héteros)
- Englishhetero-
- 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
- Proto-Indo-European*h₂el-
- Proto-Indo-European*h₂élisder.?
- Englishdimensional
- Englishheterodimensional
From hetero- + dimensional.
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APA
heterodimensional. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/heterodimensional
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