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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
three-dimensional
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
graphics
▪ Meetings within models can have three-dimensional graphics, animation, and high-quality audio.
▪ The VAXstation 4000 model 90 doubles the performance of the VAXstation 4000-60 and offers TurboChannel input-output and three-dimensional graphics.
▪ The three-dimensional graphics software concern plunged 4 3 / 8 to 23.
▪ Also planned for around that time is a version for Silicon Graphics Inc's system offering users three-dimensional graphics.
▪ Videos, virtual reality landscapes and three-dimensional graphics should all run faster and more smoothly under the new system.
▪ PixelVision, a three-dimensional graphics subsystem is due later this year.
▪ It runs two- and three-dimensional graphics simultaneously in multiple X Windows, as well as distributing 3D graphics over a network.
model
▪ Read in studio A small company is leading the way in using lasers to create three-dimensional models from computer images.
▪ Computer models are used to create three-dimensional models of prions, helping scientists understand the structural transformation they undergo to turn deadly.
object
▪ Drawing three-dimensional objects is quite difficult, but for computers the task is almost as easy as drawing a two dimensional object.
▪ Closely related to these are multiple projections on canvas or paper or even on three-dimensional objects preparatory to painting over them.
▪ The convention of indicating three-dimensional objects in a two-dimensional medium by various forms of shading and hatching.
▪ Through large-scale paintings, drawings and fabricated three-dimensional objects, she addresses the stereotypes society often imposes on such people.
▪ The first and most obvious difficulty is that a three-dimensional object can not fit satisfactorily on to a flat page.
▪ Students would fold it, pin it, and create three-dimensional objects with it to discover its strength and other properties.
space
▪ First consider displacements in a flat three-dimensional space, which is one sort of isotropic homogeneous space.
▪ One usually visualizes such a vector simply as an arrow drawn on a plane or in a three-dimensional space.
▪ But with three-dimensional space there's no dimension left over.
▪ That could pose a problem of considerable proportions, especially in three-dimensional space.
▪ To show a third variable would require a three-dimensional space, and to show four would be impossible.
▪ The developing audio technology to position a sound in three-dimensional space will become very useful.
▪ Entities zoom around in simulated three-dimensional space, colliding with each other, shooting each other down, swallowing each other amid revolting noises.
▪ Bats and we need the same kind of internal model for representing the position of objects in three-dimensional space.
structure
▪ Macromolecular crystals may be grouped into three types: chain structures, layer structures and giant three-dimensional structures.
▪ Monge provided a system for clearly displaying three-dimensional structures in two dimensions.
▪ In many ways it would be preferable to attempt to picture a three-dimensional structure as in Figure 8.3.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ a three-dimensional drawing
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Computer models are used to create three-dimensional models of prions, helping scientists understand the structural transformation they undergo to turn deadly.
▪ Holzman usually combines images painted on wood with three-dimensional wood cut-outs.
▪ Light, high tensile strength fibres confer stiffness and strength to a polymer resin that binds them into a rigid three-dimensional form.
▪ Miles has been making designs out of straws in order to understand three-dimensional shapes and angles.
▪ The three-dimensional perspective falsely adds to the difference in height across smoking categories, but fails to recognise their ordered nature.
▪ The design process in many cases begins on a computer, which is used to plot out a three-dimensional design.
▪ The results of these investigations are being integrated with new geophysical data to produce a three-dimensional geological model of the area.
Wiktionary
three-dimensional

a. 1 (context not comparable English) Existing in three dimensions 2 (context comparable English) having depth (or the illusion of depth) as well as height and width 3 (context comparable English) lifelike alt. 1 (context not comparable English) Existing in three dimensions 2 (context comparable English) having depth (or the illusion of depth) as well as height and width 3 (context comparable English) lifelike

WordNet
three-dimensional

  1. adj. involving or relating to three dimensions or aspects; giving the illusion of depth; "lifelike three-dimensional characters"; "a three-dimensional account of conditions under the new government"; "they shot the movie in three-D" [syn: third-dimensional, three-d]

  2. having three dimensions [syn: cubic] [ant: linear, planar]

Usage examples of "three-dimensional".

If you have ever watched a bat chase a moth, as both wing and weave through the evening air in amazing aerobatic gyrations, you will know how three-dimensional and accurate is their perception of this world.

Ressler recognizes: Linus Pauling, Nobel laureate, supreme figure of American chemistry, he of vitamin C and the covalent bond, structural elucidator of any number of organic molecules, and nip-and-tuck runner-up to the three-dimensional solution of DNA.

Weeks before, the tailors had taken a complete, and embarrassingly thorough, three-dimensional body scan so they could construct a holographic model and test various dress designs before fabricating them.

Doing a similar projection to the hypercube leads to the three-dimensional picture below.

Do the same with the hypercube, and you should have a pretty good three-dimensional image of a cube inside another, with corners connected by lines.

The box was evidently one three-dimensional facet of a hypercube, extending into folded space.

Some of the moles would move around circumferential arcs as well as radially, so that a multiply connected network, rather like a three-dimensional spiderweb, would develop within the hydrate beds.

Each floor was one big room, the nondenominational Office: a three-dimensional grid bounded below by a plane of thin nylon carpet, two meters above by a parallel plane of pale acoustical tile.

Grimes stared at the three-dimensional depiction of a young lady with two pairs of overdeveloped breasts, indubitably mammalian and probably from mutated human stock, turned from it to the picture of a girl with less spectacular upperworks but with brightly gleaming jewelry entwined in her luxuriant pubic hair.

He carried on to the control room, stared out through the viewports at the weirdly distorted universe observed from a ship running under Mannschenn Drive, tactfully turning his back while the officer of the watch hastily erased the three-dimensional ticktacktoe lattice from the plotting tank.

Margaret examined the three-dimensional color-enhanced tomographic scan Arn had brought.

Holograms of Achaeans and Trojans flicker here and there, many of them showing life-sized, full-color, three-dimensional images of the men and women as they argue or eat or make love or sleep.

The three-dimensional hologram showed an undistinguished stretch of space with no class-M planets and vast pockets of asteroids and dust.

Their goal is to enable an investigator not only to float seamlessly between the enormous databases of DNA sequences and those of the three-dimensional protein structures encoded by that DNA.

Some of them were text, with the elaborate numbering system of tech spec -- some individual lines within paragraphs had their own version numbers -- and some, which took just a fraction of a second longer to resolve onscreen, were deep three-dimensional diagrams and schematics optimized for looking at, and through, with VR glasses or contacts.