Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Without dimensions or bulk.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Without dimensions; having no appreciable or noteworthy extent.
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- adjective lacking
dimensions - adjective sciences of a physical
constant , lacking units.
Etymologies
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Examples
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The alternative on which much of our theories are based is that the conceptual absolute is best defined as a dimensionless point.
The Arrow of Time in Scientific American Sean 2008
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It is the dimensionless world of the subconscious mind or, as Priestley called it, the Unconscious.
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The more dimensionless the character, the less you'll need to use that laugh track like a cripple who needs to use his crutches to beg for spare change... the spare change of laughter, that is.
Joe Cristalli: How to Successfully Write Broad Comedy Joe Cristalli 2011
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And the dimensionless point inherent in every human being whatever their professed beliefs, is the point of access for courage, wisdom, selfless service, and love.
Kabir Helminski: Christopher Hitchens is "Not Great" Kabir Helminski 2011
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That off-putting lack of foothold, coupled with dimensionless characters, seriously hindered my enjoyment of this story (though I did like the Twilight Zone-ish ending).
REVIEW: 2008 Nebula Award Short Fiction Nominees [UPDATED] 2009
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The more dimensionless the character, the less you'll need to use that laugh track like a cripple who needs to use his crutches to beg for spare change... the spare change of laughter, that is.
Joe Cristalli: How to Successfully Write Broad Comedy Joe Cristalli 2011
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He creates a dimensionless point of matter and a dimensionless point of light imposed upon it.
October 17th, 2009 m_francis 2009
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Like most of us, however, I was too distracted or polite to point out that the Precambrian, as the Smithsonian admitted in a letter to Stufflebeam, denotes not a specific era but a "dimensionless unit of time, which embraces all the time between the origin of Earth and the beginning of the Cambrian Period of geologic time."
Thursday Breakfast Bender Emil Steiner 2008
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And I think people would start looking to see, well, maybe other dimensionless ratios like the ratio of the mass of the electron to the mass of the proton are changing.
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And I think people would start looking to see, well, maybe other dimensionless ratios like the ratio of the mass of the electron to the mass of the proton are changing.
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