dimension

In a sentence

Six example sentences with dimension, each labelled with its topic.

• Every dimension on the drawing was metric except the ceiling height, which the client insisted on quoting in feet.

  Architecture

• Print size adds a dimension the phone screen hides: at forty inches wide, the grain becomes part of the picture.

  Photography

• Delivery speed became the dimension customers actually compared, once every competitor had matched the same low price.

  Business

• Physicists often treat time as a fourth dimension, so an event is pinned down by three positions and one moment.

  Science

• The Big Five treats extraversion as a dimension, a scale running from quiet to outgoing rather than a box you belong in.

  Psychology

• Sculpture adds a dimension that painting lacks: you walk around it, and the figure changes with every step you take.

  Art

Found in these word lists

Each source is a published word list that contains dimension. No exam board publishes an official GRE, GMAT or SAT list; GMAT words come from GRE lists and the Academic Word List.

More Academic words

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