Definition of Two-dimensional

1. Adjective. Involving two dimensions.

Exact synonyms: Planar
Similar to: Coplanar, Flat, Placoid, Platelike, Flattened, Planate, Tabular
Antonyms: Cubic, Linear
Derivative terms: Plane, Two-dimensionality

2. Adjective. Lacking the expected range or depth; not designed to give an illusion or depth. "A flat two-dimensional painting"
Exact synonyms: 2-dimensional, Flat
Similar to: Multidimensional
Derivative terms: Flatness

Definition of Two-dimensional

1. Adjective. Existing in two dimensions. ¹

2. Adjective. Not creating the illusion of depth. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Two-dimensional

two-base hit
two-baser
two-bellied muscle
two-bit
two-blocked
two-body problem
two-by-four
two-by-fours
two-capsuled
two-carbon fragment
two-chambered
two-channel
two-cleft
two-component plasma
two-decker
two-dimensional (current term)
two-dimensional chromatography
two-dimensional figure
two-dimensionality
two-double
two-eared
two-edged
two-eyed violet
two-faced
two-facedly
two-fingered typing
two-fisted
two-fisted drinker
two-fold
two-footed

Literary usage of Two-dimensional

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Projective Geometry by Oswald Veblen, John Wesley Young (1910)
"A projective transformation between the elements of two two-dimensional or ... In this section we discuss the collineations between two-dimensional forms, ..."

2. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1918)
"... and we shall have in substance a two- dimensional flow, for which We may conceive the solid itself in which the flow takes place as two-dimensional if ..."

3. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1919)
"For like reasons a plane is a two- dimensional space of points or of lines. In circles its dimensionality is 3, in conies 5, in curves of third order 9, ..."

4. Technical Digest edited by G. W. Day, D. L. Franzen, P. A. Williams (1999)
"In this paper we describe a two-dimensional DMD (2D-DMD) measurement for two ... These differences are measured and stored in a two-dimensional array in a ..."

5. Proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society by Cambridge Philosophical Society (1843)
"In a region of two- dimensional plastic flow, the non-vanishing velocity and rate of strain components, expressed in terms of a stream function i/r, ..."

6. A Treatise on the Mathematical Theory of Elasticity by Augustus Edward Hough Love (1906)
"two-dimensional ELASTIC SYSTEMS. 143. METHODS of the kind considered in the last Chapter, depending upon simple solutions which tend to become infinite at a ..."

7. A Treatise on the Mathematical Theory of Elasticity by Augustus Edward Hough Love (1906)
"two-dimensional ELASTIC SYSTEMS. 143. METHODS of the kind considered in the last Chapter, depending upon simple solutions which tend to become infinite at a ..."

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