See also:

• DIMENSION (from Lat. dimensio, a measuring)

DIMENSION (from See also:

• LAT

Lat. dimensio, a measuring)  , in See also:

• GEOMETRY

geometry, a magnitude measured in a specified direction, i.e. length, breadth and thickness; thus a See also:

• LINE

line has only length and is said to be of one See also:

• DIMENSION (from Lat. dimensio, a measuring)

dimension, a See also:

• SURFACE

surface has length and breadth, and has two dimensions, a solid has length, breadth and thickness, and has three dimensions . This concept is extended to See also:

• ALGEBRA (from the Arab. al-jebr wa'l-mugabala, transposition and removal [of terms of an equation], the name of a treatise by Mahommed ben Musa al-Khwarizmi)

algebra: since a line, surface and solid are represented by linear, quadratic and cubic equations, and are of one, two and three dimensions; a See also:

• BIQUADRATIC (from the Lat. bi-, bis, twice, and quadratus, squared)

biquadratic See also:

• EQUATION (from Lat. aequatio, aequare, to equalize)

equation has its highest terms of four dimensions, and, in See also:

• GENERAL
• GENERAL (Lat. generalis, of or relating to a genus, kind or class)

general, an equation in any number of variables which has the greatest sum of the indices of any See also:

• TERM

term equal to n is said to have n dimensions . The " See also:

• FOURTH

fourth dimension " is a type of non-Euclidean geometry, in which it is conceived that a " solid " has one dimension more than the solids of experience . For the dimensions of See also:

• UNITS, DIMENSIONS OF
• UNITS, PHYSICAL

units see UNITS, DIMENSIONS OF .