How to Use third dimension in a Sentence
third dimension
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And things like third dimension This was the style in the ‘30s and ‘40s, to introduce a song with a verse.
— BostonGlobe.com, 14 Apr. 2023 -
In the last couple of years there’s a third dimension that is deeper to the skin.
— Jamie Rosen, Town & Country, 30 Oct. 2022 -
And the third dimension happens only if the artist is open to hearing from the room.
— Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 5 Aug. 2022 -
To do that, scientists had to bring the cells into the third dimension.
— Megan Molteni, WIRED, 27 June 2018 -
So the third dimension is time, which cannot exist without space.
— Françoise Mouly, The New Yorker, 17 Feb. 2022 -
Thus, intriguingly, the color is flat but the lines hint at a third dimension.
— Washington Post, 17 Dec. 2021 -
But unlike humans in cars, drones have a third dimension to worry about.
— IEEE Spectrum, 12 Jan. 2016 -
That progress has slowed, so the industry is looking to the third dimension to improve performance.
— Aaron Pressman, Fortune, 1 June 2021 -
This work added a third dimension to what was previously seen as just surface slicks.
— Fox News, 13 Feb. 2020 -
So, La Frontera is a project where these two countries come together, and there is this third country, this third dimension that emerges.
— Claudia Alarcón, Forbes, 22 Mar. 2023 -
Over the past few years, Smith and his colleagues have built upon antigenic cartography by adding a third dimension to their maps.
— IEEE Spectrum, 1 Feb. 2022 -
Folds in the cerebral cortex introduce a third dimension there too.
— R. Douglas Fields, Quanta Magazine, 19 Apr. 2023 -
This pen 3D prints materials so your child can take their drawings into the third dimension.
— Kai Burkhardt, CNN Underscored, 4 Dec. 2020 -
To understand how these defects lift a flat surface into the third dimension, imagine a bug crawling on a sheet of paper.
— Quanta Magazine, 6 Jan. 2015 -
Foveros takes that into the third dimension, enabling even greater density and a reduced footprint.
— Peter Bright, Ars Technica, 12 Dec. 2018 -
Submarines will likely shake it up all over again by adding a third dimension underwater.
— Gordon Mah Ung, PCWorld, 18 Sep. 2018 -
Stars that appear next to each other on the sky’s visual plane could actually be hundreds of light-years apart along that hidden third dimension, depth.
— Liz Kruesi, Discover Magazine, 1 June 2016 -
Keep peering at your screen, reading and staring, snubbing life’s third dimension and natural hues.
— Susan Crawford, WIRED, 27 Mar. 2018 -
Jack Harlow),’ is a Pop R&B track with clever expressions of feelings toward an unattainable person from the perspectives of first, second, and third dimensions.
— Ashley Iasimone, Billboard, 24 Sep. 2023 -
Combining the images gives a semblance of a third dimension, allowing the researchers to better see how the bacteria use their flagella.
— Scientific American, 30 Aug. 2019 -
Now, using the Doppler effect to add a third dimension to their data, astronomers have measured the speed of the moving plasma, as well as its direction, temperature and density.
— Doyle Rice, USA TODAY, 6 Apr. 2018 -
The addition of a third dimension gives you more flexibility.
— Quanta Magazine, 5 Sep. 2018 -
Besides the basic business plan of taking something that has worked in the past and doing it again and again — the very definition of CBS, some would say, but certainly not unique to that network — franchising adds a sort of third dimension.
— Robert Lloyd, Los Angeles Times, 6 Oct. 2021 -
Well before any of this, Abbott’s readers will have guessed that they’re headed toward a fateful meeting between A Square and an interloper from Spaceland, the third dimension.
— John J. Miller, WSJ, 8 June 2018 -
Pats of fresh, cold butter, which your teeth slice into with satisfaction, add an optional (and recommended) third dimension to the sandwich.
— Bill Addison, Los Angeles Times, 7 Apr. 2022 -
Distortions of the genetic map tells about variations in elevation in the third dimension on the geographic map!
— Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 15 July 2010 -
Mapping the third dimension allowed Edwin Hubble to prove the reality of other galaxies and then to discover that the universe is expanding.
— Corey S Powell, Discover Magazine, 16 June 2013 -
But these simulations ignored the role of the third dimension, which is an important factor because as warmer air rises, cooler air is sucked in behind it, creating convection cells.
— The Physics Arxiv Blog, Discover Magazine, 27 Sep. 2023 -
But, nearly invisibly, the war is also being waged along a third dimension: intelligence.
— Mark Galeotti, Foreign Affairs, 30 Oct. 2014 -
By extending memory into the third dimension, engineers can pack more bits into the same area without having to make those bits any smaller, much like a real-estate developer might hope to pack people into high-rises instead of single family homes.
— IEEE Spectrum, 1 Apr. 2015
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