Realm vs Dimension - What's the difference?
realm | dimension |
An abstract sphere of influence, real or imagined.
* 1907 , Tada Kanai, translated by Arthur Lloyd, Seven Buddhist Sermons , ""
* 2006 , Christian Neef, "
* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-05-17
, author=George Monbiot, authorlink=George Monbiot
, title=Money just makes the rich suffer
, volume=188, issue=23, page=19
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The domain of a certain abstraction.
* 1922 , Judson Eber Conant,The Church The Schools and Evolution , "",
(formal, or, legal) A territory or state, as ruled by a specific power, and particularly those territories ruled by a king.
* 1874 , ,
* 1913 , Leslie Alexander Toke, Catholic Encyclopedia , "",
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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, author=Robert L. Dorit
, title=Rereading Darwin
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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.
(computing) Any of the independent ranges of indices in a multidimensional array.
(science fiction, fantasy) An alternative universe or plane of existence.
As nouns the difference between realm and dimension
is that realm is an abstract sphere of influence, real or imagined while dimension is a single aspect of a given thing.As a verb dimension is
to mark, cut or shape something to specified dimensions.realm
English
Noun
(en noun)- Why should we despise anything in the realm of Buddha?
Diary of a Collapsing Superpower", Spiegel Magazine , November 22,
- At home in Moscow, Mikhail Sergeyevitch Gorbachev, who had launched a campaign to rejuvenate the Soviet realm
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- One thing more which the scientific man does is to accord primacy to that realm of truth which is primary in importance.
- And, of this island realm , he and his companion were the undisputed sovereigns.
- Then seeing his life was threatened he fled the realm and crossed over to Flanders,
Synonyms
* (A territory or state) country, land, kingdom * (A sphere of activity or influence) field, provinceDerived terms
* abstract realm * Commonwealth realm * custom of the realm * Eastern Realm * experience realm * floristic realm * Ice Realm * in the realm of shades * Northern Realm * realm of banking * realm of fantasy * realm of the dead * realm of possibility * Snow Realm * Southern Realm * Western RealmAnagrams
*dimension
English
(wikipedia dimension)Noun
(en noun)citation, passage=We live our lives in three dimensions for our threescore and ten allotted years. Yet every branch of contemporary science, from statistics to cosmology, alludes to processes that operate on scales outside of human experience: the millisecond and the nanometer, the eon and the light-year.}}
- The dimension of velocity is length divided by time.