(n.) Measure in a single line, as length, breadth, height,
thickness, or circumference; extension; measurement; -- usually, in the
plural, measure in length and breadth, or in length, breadth, and
thickness; extent; size; as, the dimensions of a room, or of a ship;
the dimensions of a farm, of a kingdom.
(n.) Extent; reach; scope; importance; as, a project of large
dimensions.
(n.) The degree of manifoldness of a quantity; as, time is
quantity having one dimension; volume has three dimensions, relative to
extension.
(n.) A literal factor, as numbered in characterizing a term.
The term dimensions forms with the cardinal numbers a phrase equivalent
to degree with the ordinal; thus, a2b2c is a term of five dimensions,
or of the fifth degree.
(n.) The manifoldness with which the fundamental units of
time, length, and mass are involved in determining the units of other
physical quantities.
