Part 3122

<i>J. C. Shairp.</i>

<h1>Dimble</h1> <Xpage=413>

<hw>Dim"ble</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[Prob. orig., a cavity, and the same word as <ets>dimple</ets>. See <er>Dimple</er>.]</ety> <def>A bower; a dingle.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<i>Drayton.</i>

<h1>Dime</h1> <Xpage=413>

<hw>Dime</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[F. <ets>d\'8cme</ets> tithe, OF. <ets>disme</ets>, fr. L. <ets>decimus</ets> the tenth, fr. <ets>decem</ets> ten. See <er>Decimal</er>.]</ety> <def>A silver coin of the United States, of the value of ten cents; the tenth of a dollar.</def>

<cs><col>Dime novel</col>, <cd>a novel, commonly sensational and trashy, which is sold for a dime, or ten cents.</cd></cs>

<h1>Dimension</h1> <Xpage=413>

<hw>Di*men"sion</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[L. <ets>dimensio</ets>, fr. <ets>dimensus</ets>, p. p. of <ets>dimetiri</ets> to measure out; <ets>di- = dis-</ets> + <ets>metiri</ets> to measure: cf. F. <ets>dimension</ets>. See <er>Measure</er>.]</ety>

<p><b>1.</b> <def>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>as, the <ex>dimensions</ex> of a room, or of a ship; the <ex>dimensions</ex> of a farm, of a kingdom.</as></def>

<blockquote>Gentlemen of more than ordinary <b>dimensions</b>. <i>W. Irving.</i></blockquote>

<cs><col>Space of dimension</col>, <cd>extension that has length but no breadth or thickness; a straight or curved line.</cd> -- <col>Space of two dimensions</col>, <cd>extension which has length and breadth, but no thickness; a plane or curved surface.</cd> -- <col>Space of three dimensions</col>, <cd>extension which has length, breadth, and thickness; a solid.</cd> -- <col>Space of four dimensions</col>, <cd>as imaginary kind of extension, which is assumed to have length, breadth, thickness, and also a fourth imaginary dimension. Space of five or six, or more dimensions is also sometimes assumed in mathematics.</cd></cs>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>Extent; reach; scope; importance; <as>as, a project of large <ex>dimensions</ex></as>.</def>

<p><b>3.</b> <fld>(Math.)</fld> <def>The degree of manifoldness of a quantity; <as>as, time is quantity having one <ex>dimension</ex>; volume has three <ex>dimensions</ex>, relative to extension.</as></def>

<p><b>4.</b> <fld>(Alg.)</fld> <def>A literal factor, as numbered in characterizing a term. The term <i>dimensions</i> forms with the cardinal numbers a phrase equivalent to <i>degree</i> with the ordinal; thus, <mathex><it>a<exp>2</exp>b<exp>2</exp>c</it></mathex> is a term of five <i>dimensions</i>, or of the fifth degree.</def>

<p><b>5.</b> <pluf>pl.</pluf> <fld>(Phys.)</fld> <def>The manifoldness with which the fundamental units of time, length, and mass are involved in determining the units of other physical quantities. <as>Thus, since the unit of velocity varies directly as the unit of length and inversely as the unit of time, the <ex>dimensions</ex> of velocity are said to be <mathex>length &divby; time</mathex>; the <ex>dimensions</ex> of work are <mathex>mass &times; (length)<exp>2</exp> &divby; (time)<exp>2</exp></mathex>; the <ex>dimensions</ex> of density are <mathex>mass &divby; (length)<exp>3</exp></mathex>.</def>

<-- dimensional lumber --> <cs><mcol><col>Dimension lumber</col>, <col>Dimension scantling</col>, &or; <col>Dimension stock</col></mcol> <fld>(Carp.)</fld>, <cd>lumber for building, etc., cut to the sizes usually in demand, or to special sizes as ordered.</cd> -- <col>Dimension stone</col>, <cd>stone delivered from the quarry rough, but brought to such sizes as are requisite for cutting to dimensions given.</cd></cs>

<h1>Dimensional</h1> <Xpage=413>

<hw>Di*men"sion*al</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <def>Pertaining to dimension.</def>

<h1>Dimensioned</h1> <Xpage=413>

<hw>Di*men"sioned</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <def>Having dimensions.</def> <mark>[R.]</mark>

<h1>Dimensionless</h1> <Xpage=413>

<hw>Di*men"sion*less</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <def>Without dimensions; having no appreciable or noteworthy extent.</def>

<i>Milton.</i>

<h1>Dimensity</h1> <Xpage=413>

<hw>Di*men"si*ty</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>Dimension.</def> <mark>[R.]</mark>

<i>Howell.</i>

<h1>Dimensive</h1> <Xpage=413>