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This will open up certain dimensions of a medium like this to almost anyone.
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Chu and his team at Bell Laboratories realized "optical molasses", demonstrating 3-dimen-sional
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Hanging in the rain was a giant and very vivid three-dimen - sional image of her father looking startled about something.
Mostly Harmless Adams, Douglas, 1952- 1992
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But Jagiello's brilliance lay mainly in his abililty to persuade, and gradually, from all parts of the chaotic nation, he assembled a force of quite stunning dimen - sions, one of the largest that had ever operated in this part of Europe.
Poland Michener, James 1983
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He had invoked the third dimension, and the alien had in turn invoked something like the fourth dimen - sion.
Blue Adept Anthony, Piers 1981
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His aspirations had made a dimen - sional expansion.
Blue Adept Anthony, Piers 1981
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A three-dimen'sional image formed over a projector.
The Black Hole Foster, Alan Dean 1979
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They brought a huge force of creatures against Darkvale, raising and compressing the walls of the valley, but the knight sought the aid of Law who enabled him to shift his tower into another dimen - sion.
The Vanishing Tower Moorcock, Michael, 1939- 1970
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The next generalization concerns infinitely-dimen - sional spaces where one needs a countable number of coordinates for the definition of each elementary event.
Dictionary of the History of Ideas HILDA GEIRINGER 1968
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In 1907 Minkowski showed in detail that the natural habitat of the equations of relativity is a four-dimen - sional “space-time,” an idea already explicitly fore - shadowed by Poincaré in 1905.
RELATIVITY BANESH HOFFMANN 1968
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