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- adjective Alternative form of
two-dimensional .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective lacking the expected range or depth; not designed to give an illusion or depth
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Examples
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(There are also issues with using 2-dimensional images to help us think about 4-dimensional spaces, but that can be for later).
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Sticky, they would put him in a 2-dimensional prison of course … duh.
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It plans to make that switch from a 1-dimensional to a 2-dimensional rating system this coming summer.
Craig Newmark: How accountable and transparent is your favorite charity? Ask Charity Navigator Craig Newmark 2011
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Travelling through the wormhole looks as if you are leaving the 2-dimensional spacetime, and entering the 3-dimensional flat space.
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To generate the resultant pattern, a 3-dimensional bulge is formed around the tree, and its distorted wire-grid projected onto a 2-dimensional surface.
Boing Boing 2009
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It plans to make that switch from a 1-dimensional to a 2-dimensional rating system this coming summer.
Craig Newmark: How accountable and transparent is your favorite charity? Ask Charity Navigator Craig Newmark 2011
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They were juvenile, overwrought with male power fantasies, 2-dimensional female roles, and all the tropes that gaming has seemed by and large unable to shake off.
Savage Kingdom SVGL 2009
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But for the film The Crazies, I wanted to have a more traditional filmic quality, the nice tight grain of a Kodak film and the saturation of the colors and the 2-dimensional filmic world.
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One part origami, one part architecture, pure genius, the brand new Bloxes system makes 2-dimensional pieces of interlocking cardboard come to life as expandable and continually adaptable structures.
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The entire universe here is the 2-dimensional spacetime, which includes the wormhole.
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