| 单词 | two-dimensional |
| 释义 | two-dimensional (once / 31858 pages) adj Two-dimensional things are flat — they can be measured in length and width, but they have no depth. Geometrical shapes like squares, circles, and polygons are all two-dimensional. A sheet of paper may seem to be two-dimensional, but because it does have a measurable (if tiny) depth, it's actually three-dimensional. Your dog is also three-dimensional, but a picture of him on your computer screen is two-dimensional. You can also use this mathematical adjective to mean "superficial," or "shallow." A bad guy in a movie might be described as a two-dimensional character, for example, since he seems to have "no depth." WORD FAMILYtwo-dimensional: two-dimensionality USAGE EXAMPLESIt’s a bit like skate-parking through a two-dimensional obstacle course. Time(Dec 15, 2016) Boeing, which refers to its two-dimensional system as “assisted reality,” cut production time by 25% and reduced errors to zero after using the system. Wall Street Journal(Dec 12, 2016) He defined the career stages of any minority actor: “Stage one is the two-dimensional stereotype – the minicab driver/terrorist/cornershop owner.” The Guardian(Dec 04, 2016) 1adj involving two dimensions Syn|Ant planar coplanar lying in the same plane flathaving a relatively broad surface in relation to depth or thickness placoid, platelikeas the hard flattened scales of e.g. sharks flattened, planatehaving been flattened tabularflat; like a table in form cubic, three-dimensional having three dimensions linear, one-dimensionalof or in or along or relating to a line; involving a single dimension blockish, blockyresembling a block in shape box-shaped, boxlike, boxyresembling a box in rectangularity brick-shapedshaped like a brick cube-shaped, cubelike, cubical, cubiform, cuboid, cuboidalshaped like a cube isometricof a crystal system characterized by three equal axes at right angles solidhaving three dimensions collinearlying on the same line linealarranged in a line linelikeresembling a line rectilineal, rectilinearcharacterized by a straight line or lines 2adj lacking the expected range or depth; not designed to give an illusion or depth a film with two-dimensional characters Syn 2-dimensional, flat multidimensional having or involving or marked by several dimensions or aspects |
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