Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Of, relating to, having, or existing in three dimensions.
- adjective Having or appearing to have extension in depth.
- adjective Treating many aspects of a subject; lifelike.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Same as
tridimensional .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective not comparable Existing in three dimensions
- adjective comparable having
depth (or theillusion of depth) as well asheight andwidth - adjective comparable
lifelike
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective having three dimensions
- adjective involving or relating to three dimensions or aspects; giving the illusion of depth
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Examples
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The planning team is led by Moshe Safdie, who gained renown as the designer of Habitat 67, an innovative housing complex that was an example of what he called a three-dimensional community.
Makeshift Metropolis Witold Rybczynski 2010
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The planning team is led by Moshe Safdie, who gained renown as the designer of Habitat 67, an innovative housing complex that was an example of what he called a three-dimensional community.
Makeshift Metropolis Witold Rybczynski 2010
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The planning team is led by Moshe Safdie, who gained renown as the designer of Habitat 67, an innovative housing complex that was an example of what he called a three-dimensional community.
Makeshift Metropolis Witold Rybczynski 2010
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Personally, I prefer to keep the idea of three-dimensional zombie-faced Beatles to my nightmares.
Jonathan Kim: Mars Needs Moms and the Uncanny Valley Jonathan Kim 2011
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Not quite a sculpture and not quite an installation, it's probably best described as a three-dimensional drawing.
Nancy Spero: no pity 2011
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Personally, I prefer to keep the idea of three-dimensional zombie-faced Beatles to my nightmares.
The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com Jonathan Kim 2011
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These are simply extraordinary: hand-drawn images of immensely complex geometrical bodies, among them the 72-sided hebdomicontadissaedron and the very first representation in history of icosidodecahedron, that is, a three-dimensional solid with 20 triangular faces and 12 pentagonal faces.
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph Martin Gayford 2011
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He makes striking glass sculptures where primordial life-sized figures, intricate dream-scapes and surreal mythological narratives, appear three-dimensional and 'frozen' inside in the glass, as if preserved in a moment beyond time.
Annie Fabricant: Dustin Yellin - On Building 12-Ton Sculptures and a 'Utopian Art Center' in Brooklyn Annie Fabricant 2012
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He makes striking glass sculptures where primordial life-sized figures, intricate dream-scapes and surreal mythological narratives, appear three-dimensional and 'frozen' inside in the glass, as if preserved in a moment beyond time.
Annie Fabricant: Dustin Yellin - On Building 12-Ton Sculptures and a 'Utopian Art Center' in Brooklyn Annie Fabricant 2012
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He makes striking glass sculptures where primordial life-sized figures, intricate dream-scapes and surreal mythological narratives, appear three-dimensional and 'frozen' inside in the glass, as if preserved in a moment beyond time.
Annie Fabricant: Dustin Yellin - On Building 12-Ton Sculptures and a 'Utopian Art Center' in Brooklyn Annie Fabricant 2012
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