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Third dimension   /θərd dɪmˈɛnʃən/   Listen
Third dimension

noun
1.
The dimension whereby a solid object differs from a two-dimensional drawing of it.





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"Third dimension" Quotes from Famous Books



... said, "is two dimensional, has length and breadth, but no thickness. Now in order to enter the third dimension, our plane, the shadow would have to bulge out in some way, into the dimension of thickness an obvious impossibility. Similarly, we can not enter the fourth dimension. Do ...
— The 4-D Doodler • Graph Waldeyer
... language of any sort, in the adult man who has the faculty of speech, was discovered by Helmholtz. The logical functions called by him "unconscious inferences" begin, as I think I have shown by many observations in the newly-born, immediately with the activity of the senses. Perception in the third dimension of space is a particularly clear example of this sort of logical activity without words, because it ...
— The Mind of the Child, Part II • W. Preyer


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