dimension of space

collocation in English

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dimension
noun
uk
/ˌdaɪˈmen.ʃən/us
/ˌdaɪˈmen.ʃən/
a measurement of something in a particular direction, especially its height, length, ...
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space
noun
uk
/speɪs/us
/speɪs/
an empty area that is available to ...
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(Definition ofdimensionandspacefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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Alongside that we can distinguish a culture-bound ideological-mentaldimensionofspace.
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By notating a musical idea we transform it from something born in the dimension of time into something recorded in thedimensionofspace.
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The culture-bound, ideological-mentaldimensionofspaceis also a prominent topic of research for archaeologists studying the cultural landscape.
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By employing narrative description to reflect the temporaldimensionofspace, the thesis instead employs narrative description to elucidate those experiences.
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By introducing a newdimensionofspacein warfare, and by altering the scale of time in which operations are conducted, the air arm has completely revolutionised strategy and tactics.
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What counts for us is the fact that it expresses the inseparability of space and time (time as the fourthdimensionofspace).
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In this manner the events happening in the onedimensionofspacecan be transferred easily to a horizontal line in the diagram.
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The solution of this problem provides a sole mathematical connection between energy states and thedimensionofspace.
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An incredible 5thdimensionofspaceand time, lies parallel to the universe that we know.
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It is our belief as architects that the socialdimensionofspacelies in its ability to be materialised and conceptualised by means of new and evermore speculative spatial orderings.
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The snowy countryside acts upon the thinker as a shimmering and blinding force confounding the dimensions of space and time.
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Studies of niche overlap within communities of lizards have shown that separation may be along the three major dimensions of space, time and food.
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Finally, geometry began to break away from the three dimensions of space, and the idea of an n-dimensional geometry emerged.
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The question is whether that technology can be extended to the dimensions of space.
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Land, sea and air are the three dimensions of transport, and, like the dimensions of space, they are welded together by the factor of time.
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It was designed with the dimensions of space itself.
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In everyday life, there are three familiar dimensions of space (up/down, left/right, and forward/backward), and there is one dimension of time.
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These simple movements in the three dimensions of space mean individual atoms have three translational degrees of freedom.
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He believes that, once enough dimensions of space-time are invoked, free will becomes inevitable.
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Some extensions of present physics posit the existence of extra dimensions of space.
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