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One-dimensional

Definitions: One-dimensional

One-dimensional

Adjective

1. Relating to a single dimension or aspect; having no depth or scope; "a prose statement of fact is unidimensional, its value being measured wholly in terms of its truth"- Mary Sheehan; "a novel with one-dimensional characters".

2. Of or in or along or relating to a line; involving a single dimension; "a linear foot".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "one-dimensional" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1985. (references)


Specialty Definitions: One-dimensional

DomainDefinitions

Math

Dealing with or restricted to a line. An organization where location can be completely described with exactly one axis. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Synonyms: One-dimensional

Synonyms: linear (adj), unidimensional (adj). (additional references)
Synonyms by domain: one-dimensional distribution (statistics), one-dimensional flow (physics), one-dimensional logic system (computing, electrical engineering), one-dimensional state of stress (physics), one-dimensional table (computing), quasi-one-dimensional magnetic system (physics).
Antonyms: cubic (adj), multidimensional (adj), planar (adj). (additional references)

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Crosswords: One-dimensional

English words defined with "one-dimensional": one-dimensional languageunidimensional. (references)
Specialty definitions using "one-dimensional": BCPLDIM statement, Dynamic Wave Routing Modelenergy balance modelsone-dimensional flow, one-dimensional state of stress, one-dimensional tableradiative-convective modelsvisual programming language. (references)

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Modern Usage: One-dimensional

DomainUsage

Screenplays

And now you can go back to just being you, instead of a one-dimensional character with a silly catchphrase. (The Simpsons; writing credit: Artur Brauner; Paul Hengge)

I don't know what you were expecting, but as a sword I'm pretty one-dimensional in what I want. (Baldur's Gate II: Shadows of Amn; writing credit: Vernica Suárez)

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Commercial Usage: One-dimensional

DomainTitle

Books

  • One-Dimensional Man : Studies in the Ideology of Advanced Industrial Society (reference)

  • Maximality Properties in Numerical Semigroups and Applications to One-Dimensional Analytically Irreducible Local Domains (Memoirs of the American Mathematical Society, 598) (reference)

  • The Global Dynamics of Cellular Automata: An Atlas of Basin of Attraction Fields of One-Dimensional Cellular Automata (Santa Fe Institute: Studies) (reference)

  • Cramming 3-D children into a one-dimensional world : Anne E. Strickland (reference)

  • Branching Solutions to One-Dimensional Variational Problems (reference)

    (more book examples)

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Usage Frequency: One-dimensional

"One-dimensional" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "One-dimensional" is used about 100 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Adjective (general or positive)100%10032,668

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expression: One-dimensional

Hypenated Usage

Ending with "one-dimensional": pseudo-one-dimensional.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: One-dimensional

Language Translations for "one-dimensional"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Chinese 

  

一维 (unidimensional). (various references)

   

Italian

  

il modello di diffusione unidimensionale di Taylor (the Taylor one-dimensional diffusion model). (various references)

   

Korean 

  

1차원. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

one-dimensionalay

   

Portuguese

  

o modelo de difusão unidimensional de Taylor (the Taylor one-dimensional diffusion model). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

одномерный (univariate). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

el modelo de fusión unidimensional de Taylor (the Taylor one-dimensional diffusion model). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Misspellings: One-dimensional

Misspellings

"One-dimensional" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: onedimensional. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: One-dimensional

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-d-e-e-i-i-l-m-n-n-n-o-o-s"

-3 letters: dimensional.

-4 letters: mandolines, menadiones.

-5 letters: adenosine, alimonies, denominal, dimension, dominions, eledoisin, indamines, landmines, lemonades, limonenes, mainlined, mainlines, mandoline, mandolins, melanoids, melodeons, menadione, nonsaline, salmonoid.

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Alternative Orthography: One-dimensional


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

4F 6E 65 2D 64 69 6D 65 6E 73 69 6F 6E 61 6C

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01001111 01101110 01100101 00101101 01100100 01101001 01101101 01100101 01101110 01110011 01101001 01101111 01101110 01100001 01101100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#79 &#110 &#101 &#45 &#100 &#105 &#109 &#101 &#110 &#115 &#105 &#111 &#110 &#97 &#108

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

004F 006E 0065 002D 0064 0069 006D 0065 006E 0073 0069 006F 006E 0061 006C

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

498071157075797180857581806778

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Modern
5. Usage: Commercial
6. Usage Frequency
7. Expressions
8. Translations: Modern
9. Derivations
10. Anagrams
11. Orthography
12. Bibliography


  

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