Other forms: dimensions
A dimension is one measurable direction of a thing — length, width or height. The dimensions of the room, three dimensions, check the dimensions.
In the plural it usually means the full set of measurements: give me the dimensions. In physics, time is treated as a fourth dimension alongside the three of space. The figurative sense is an aspect of a question: a moral dimension, a new dimension to the problem. Note two-dimensional, which of a character means flat and unconvincing; and that dimensions also means sheer size — a problem of these dimensions.
1noundimensionOne measurable direction of a thing.
“The dimensions of the crate are on the label.”
2nounaspectOne aspect of a question or situation.
“There is a moral dimension nobody wanted to raise.”
dimension is a direction or aspect.
Latin
dīmēnsiō
English, today
dimension
From Latin dīmēnsiō.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA