Largeness vs Dimension - What's the difference?
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(obsolete) Liberality; generosity.
The property of being physically large.
The quality of not being limited or constrained; having great scope.
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.
(computing) Any of the independent ranges of indices in a multidimensional array.
(science fiction, fantasy) An alternative universe or plane of existence.
Largeness is a related term of dimension.
As nouns the difference between largeness and dimension
is that largeness is (obsolete) liberality; generosity while dimension is dimension.largeness
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(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.