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The knowledge dimension (cultural / educational / learning): This dimension is the most connected to the motives for resistance and is the logical input into the other dimensions.

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  1. noun A measure of spatial extent, especially width, height, or length.
  2. noun Extent or magnitude; scope. Often used in the plural: a problem of alarming dimensions.
  3. noun Aspect; element: "He's a good newsman, and he has that extra dimension” (William S. Paley).
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  • And the other dimension is: are they what they say they are to others? —  Joseph Pine on what consumers want
  • There is in England a fourth dimension which is beyond the perception, say, of an American railway king, who after much amazement and wrath concludes that the English are not a modern people and thereafter returns to his own more reasonable land. —  Rudyard Kipling
  • Suffice it for me to say tonight that an extra dimension has been added to linkage, initially for military purposes, lately for pure research. —  Asimov's Science Fiction - 1977_02(002)Summer
  • You are about to enter another dimension, a dimension not only of sight and sound but of mind. —  HOME - Top Stories
  • The conflict also had a regional dimension, as most support for the United Tajik Opposition was based mainly in the mountain valleys east of Dushanbe. —  Institute for War & Peace Reporting:
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size ·  aspect ·  significance ·  height ·  extent ·  concept ·  proportion ·  width ·  phenomenon ·  representation ·  scale ·  location

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  1. Middle English dimensioun, from Latin dīmēnsiō, dīmēnsiōn-, extent, from dīmēnsus, past participle of dīmētīrī, to measure out : dī-, dis-, dis- + mētīrī, to measure; see mē-2 in Indo-European roots.

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  1. from Old French dimension, French dimension = Provencal dimencio = Spanish dimension = Portuguese dimensão = Italian dimensione = Dutch dimensie = G. Danish Swedish dimension, from Latin dimensio (n-), a measuring, extent, dimension, diameter or axis, from dimetiri, past participle dimensus, measure off, measure out (cf. present participle dimetien (t-)s, as a noun, diameter), from di- for dis-, apart, + metiri, measure: see measure.
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