Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Wiktionary
a. 1 Existing in two dimensions. 2 Not creating the illusion of depth. alt. 1 Existing in two dimensions. 2 Not creating the illusion of depth.
WordNet
Usage examples of "two-dimensional".
Ralston, the ingenious instrument which was, in effect, a two-dimensional model of the ship mounted on gymbals, upon which shiftable weights represented stores, pro-pellant, personnel and cargo.
As Hiro pulls it from her hand, the hypercard changes from a jittery two-dimensional figment into a realistic, cream-colored, finely textured piece of stationery.
TV screen, his best and only friend, the giant Zenith, literally bigger than he is, bigger than life, an angel, a devil, a god, sucking in amber waves of radiation that will cause his hair to repeal at twenty-three, watching Johnny fucking Quest fight the lizards and live the two-dimensional four-color good life like a young, cartoon Hemingway, wishing his mom and dad were there to hold him and tell him that everything was alright and to promise him that life would not become boring and predictable and that he would not wish for death while slurping booze in a death-disco fernless bar while being watched -- and he KNEW it -- through small eyes by two dead-fish women whose bitterness was oozing through their skin, literally, oozing, only to be held in check by a wall, a fortification, really, of caked-on, buckling makeup, psychically pin-pricked by these lumps of plodding DNA?
The image had the slightly artificial edges of a remastered two-dimensional image, which made it old.
Suddenly the holographic screen became two-dimensional and turned amber in color, and the word READY appeared in rich yellow letters.
It was a question that for some reason infuriated Mandrake, but he answered with alarming politeness that it was not a war play but an experiment in two-dimensional formulism.
He has been cut off from contact with The Black Sun itself, disconnected as it were from the Metaverse, and is just seeing a two-dimensional display.
I moved after Modred, though the room kept shrinking and expanding insanely, and sometimes Gawain was very far away and sometimes just out of reach, but two-dimensional, so that he seemed pressed between two pieces of glass, and his beautiful hair hanging down at an unconscious angle seemed afire like the river of stars, streaming and flowing like light.
He slung them on his back, not bothering to reinflate them, seeing another advantage in two-dimensional thinking.
Chapter 11, we had studied a two-part process in which a two-dimensional sphere pinches down to a point, causing the fabric of space to tear, and then the two-dimensional sphere reinflates in a new way, thereby repairing the tear.
Whenever it is a question of thinking about the world or of practically modifying it, men can only work on a symbolic plan of the universe, only a simplified, two-dimensional map of things abstracted by the mind out of the complex and multifarious reality of immediate intuition.
Shelliak, Romulans, Ansata terrorists, Gomtuu, Tallarians, two-dimensional creatures, and more spatial anomalies than she could shake a stick at, not to mention regular visits from Q, Sonya began to grow weary of it.
He graphed the sleep and body temperature cycles together in a two-dimensional format called a raster plot.
The fabricules making up her clothing- countless mites linked elbow-to-elbow in a two-dimensional array- went to work pumping away the water trapped in the interstices.
There have even been quite attractive mathematical cosmologies which begin with a two-dimensional, expanding universe, and later jump to 3D, for unexplained reasons.