third dimension
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- noun
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tercera dimensión
- If you are just a two-dimensional square, you can't imagine the third dimension.
And it suggests that it's a pictorial message in three dimensions.
- And it suggests that it's a pictorial message in three dimensions.
- Interestingly, the authors found that if you use soft edges, then in three dimensions a shape might no longer have any corners.
- And as the universe expands right in all three dimensions, expands in height, expands in length, and expands in depth.
- If you could actually see in three dimensions, you'd be able to see all of my dimensions right now, even the back of my head.
- But say in three dimensions, we don't know how to do that.
- So you can only reach God from the third dimension.
- So you don't have the basic tool to go in three dimensions.
- If you moved, you would be able to see her from three dimensions.
Examples
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Vanderbei's solution to showing the population differences without distorting the geography is to render the population data into a third dimension on a spinning 3D map.
Blog text (15) -
Birds can escape predators and find food by traveling through the third dimension.
Fiction book (2002) -
But there was certainly a third dimension here.
Fiction book (1990) -
And it turned out with just three dimensions, we could describe this space.
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But say in three dimensions, we don't know how to do that.
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We spent all our life in three dimensions, going forward, backward, left, right, up, down.
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The third dimension of the framework contains the core disciplinary ideas for the three science areas and for engineering and technology.
Academic text (2012) -
What is missing in this picture is a kind of third dimension that shows how, in developing new technologies and products, results from many areas of science and technology usually must be combined.
Academic text (1995) -
Two-dimensional up to this point, the balloon acquired a third dimension as it grew, becoming a much more literal balloon.
Fiction book (1997) -
In art, the use of shadows can create a third dimension that makes the painting feel more realistic.
Synonyms
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How far down something goes from its top to its bottom
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Having height, width, and depth
The quality of having three dimensions like length, width, and depth
Antonyms
How Three-Dimensional
Surface Forms
Morphology
The phrase 'third dimension' is directly compositional: 'third' identifies the ordinal position and 'dimension' names a measurable aspect, so together they denote the dimension that adds depth beyond length and width. This concept and the modifier-noun composition are cross-linguistically common and follow standard English patterns, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents would readily infer the meaning.
Etymology
The term third dimension comes from the idea of adding a new direction to a flat picture: imagine a square on the page and then imagine it coming out toward you to make a cube. That extra direction gives 'depth', so third dimension means having depth as well as length and width.