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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
one-dimensional
adjective
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ the novel's boring, one-dimensional characters
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Emphasis is placed on one-dimensional systems, but flat plate problems are also discussed.
▪ For a one-dimensional flow, the only possible attractor is a stable fixed point or sink.
▪ For example, two-dimensional animals living on a one-dimensional earth would have to climb over each other in order to get past each other.
▪ For this, the particles must be considered as point particles, i. e. having one-dimensional world-lines.
▪ However, we shall be wanting also to express the specification of the device in a linear one-dimensional form.
▪ Munro never lets you get away with a facile, one-dimensional take.
▪ These chain structures may be regarded as one-dimensional macromolecules.
▪ To endorse one-dimensional submission is to reject the whole counsel of Scripture.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
one-dimensional

one-dimensional \one-dimensional\ adj. having only one dimension; as, a line is a one-dimensional object; a one-dimensional array.

2. Seeming to have only one dimension; lacking depth; as, one-dimensional characters.

Wiktionary
one-dimensional

a. 1 Having length, but no width, height or depth. 2 (context figuratively English) Lacking depth or believability; flat.

WordNet
one-dimensional

  1. adj. relating to a single dimension or aspect; having no depth or scope; "a prose statement of fact is unidimensional, its value being measured wholly in terms of its truth"- Mary Sheehan; "a novel with one-dimensional characters" [syn: unidimensional] [ant: multidimensional]

  2. of or in or along or relating to a line; involving a single dimension; "a linear foot" [syn: linear] [ant: planar, cubic]

Usage examples of "one-dimensional".

When he returned to Balmoral he felt as if he himself were flat and one-dimensional like a photograph.

Pilar Cafe basement had been decorated more or less like an Edwardian brothel, with one-dimensional naked trollops, rather than real whores, debauching around on feed calendars, and framed Playboy centerfolds lining the golden walls.

It not only flattened the Kosmos to a one-dimensional, monological affair, it sealed out the possibility of deeper and wider developments that alone could defuse its own insoluble dilemmas.

Unlike your human eyes, which can swivel around to look in all three dimensions, your eyes as a Linebeing are forever locked into position, each staring off into the one-dimensional distance.

As argued by Witten, this assumption has made the fundamental ingredients look and behave like one-dimensional strings even though they actually have a hidden, second spatial dimension.

And second, having made the bold leap in the 1970s and early 1980s from zero-dimensional point particles to one-dimensional strings, and having now seen that string theory actually involves two-dimensional membranes, might it be that there are even higher-dimensional ingredients in the theory as well?

For years the Pilar Cafe basement had been decorated more or less like an Edwardian brothel, with one-dimensional naked trollops, rather than real whores, debauching around on feed calendars, and framed Playboy centerfolds lining the golden walls.

The upshot is that from a quarter of a mile away, a long piece of garden hose appears to be a one-dimensional object.

The Moberly woman thought the scenery unnatural and lifeless, one-dimensional, no breeze, no light and shade, no sense of aliveness.