Noun

Size, mass or volume.

* 1729 .

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The cliff-dwellers had chipped and chipped away at this boulder till it rested its tremendous bulk upon a mere pin-point of its surface.

The major part of something.

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The result of water retained by fibre.

(uncountable, transport) Unpackaged goods when transported in large volumes, e.g. coal, ore or grain.

(countable) a cargo or any items moved or communicated in the manner of cargo.

(bodybuilding) Excess body mass, especially muscle.

(brane cosmology) A hypothetical higher-dimensional space within which our own four-dimensional universe may exist.

(obsolete) The body.

* Shakespeare

My liver leaped within my bulk .

(George Turberville)

Noun

(en noun)

A single aspect of a given thing.

A measure of spatial extent in a particular direction, such as height, width or breadth, or depth.

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A construct whereby objects or individuals can be distinguished.

(geometry) The number of independent coordinates needed to specify uniquely the location of a point in a space; also, any of such independent coordinates.

(linear algebra) The number of elements of any basis of a vector space.

(physics) One of the physical properties that are regarded as fundamental measures of a physical quantity, such as mass, length and time.

The dimension of velocity is length divided by time.

(computing) Any of the independent ranges of indices in a multidimensional array.

(science fiction, fantasy) An alternative universe or plane of existence.