How to Use two-dimensional in a Sentence
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When the tiny threads are closed and move through spacetime in a wobbly manner, their track forms a two-dimensional tube.
— Manon Bischoff, Scientific American, 5 Feb. 2024 -
When the device is on (when 6 V are applied to the gate), electrons flow from the drain to the source in a flat region called a two-dimensional electron gas.
— IEEE Spectrum, 26 Mar. 2023 -
Next, map the circle onto the two-dimensional surface of an inner tube (a one-holed torus).
— Kevin Hartnett, Quanta Magazine, 22 Aug. 2023 -
Gomez’s pinstriped suit was cut and tailored to keep the stripes linear and almost two-dimensional on the actor’s round body.
— Valli Herman, Los Angeles Times, 21 June 2023 -
As lidars slim down and scale up, the days of pure two-dimensional image sensing seem numbered.
— IEEE Spectrum, 8 Mar. 2023 -
The flourishes may be two-dimensional, but because of them, the car looks just like one Arsham’s sculptures.
— Bryan Hood, Robb Report, 21 Apr. 2023 -
But that is mostly a two-dimensional effect, the product of extruding the building’s stack of floor plates.
— Mark Lamster, Dallas News, 3 May 2023 -
These define a two-dimensional subspace — a flat plane parallel to the floor.
— Anil Ananthaswamy, Quanta Magazine, 13 Apr. 2023 -
Everybody’s trying to make this jump from a two-dimensional, static image on page to live action, and some things have to change.
— Adam B. Vary, Variety, 24 Feb. 2023 -
The current exhibit at the JCC is more two-dimensional, Rosenberg said.
— Jacob Gurvis, Sun Sentinel, 21 Apr. 2023 -
Neutral-atom arrays can be a two-dimensional grid, which is much easier to scale up.
— Philip Ball, Quanta Magazine, 25 Mar. 2024 -
The new emblem is darker and more two-dimensional than the chrome badge seen on current Genesis models.
— Joey Capparella, Car and Driver, 6 Apr. 2023 -
The middle third of the film is poorly paced; horror gimmicks that initially shock are, at times, overused; and the visuals can sometimes feel two-dimensional and bland.
— Lucas Trevor, Washington Post, 18 Sep. 2023 -
The two-dimensional art in the building has been moved, but some of the massive sculptures created by artist Ralphael Plescia are embedded in the structure and cannot be moved.
— Palak Jayswal, The Salt Lake Tribune, 4 Aug. 2023 -
But that would be possible only because the lattice on the paper is two-dimensional.
— Kelsey Houston-Edwards, Scientific American, 16 Jan. 2024 -
The model can take a short text description of the game, a photo, or even a small sketch of what a game screen should look like and then generate a simple two-dimensional, arcade-style game from that input.
— Jeremy Kahn, Fortune, 5 Mar. 2024 -
The film cuts abruptly to the desktop of the Microsoft Windows operating system — the two-dimensional green hills against an eternal clear blue sky.
— Lovia Gyarkye, The Hollywood Reporter, 23 Jan. 2024 -
All of the two-dimensional art is out, Plant-Nenninger said, except for a painting on the ceiling of the top floor — where Plescia painted portraits of family members who had died.
— Palak Jayswal, The Salt Lake Tribune, 4 Aug. 2023 -
An image became an array of numbers, a two-dimensional grid that represented the brightness of the sky at each pixel.
— Phil Plait, Scientific American, 7 June 2024 -
Modeled from songs from the album, the not-for-sale-collection flaunted past two-dimensional stylings and signaled to the higher cultures of Kemet, China, and Homeric Greece.
— Killian Wright-Jackson, Essence, 1 Dec. 2023 -
In a separate study, a different group of researchers—also based at CU Boulder—used lasers to hold strontium atoms in a single two-dimensional plane.
— IEEE Spectrum, 15 Oct. 2023 -
Create the illusion of a two-dimensional Christmas tree with these colorful light strands.
— Toni Sutton, Peoplemag, 2 Dec. 2023 -
The principal type of neuron in the cerebellum, called the Purkinje cell, is widely branching like a fan coral, yet flattened and nearly two-dimensional.
— Rebecca Boyle, Quanta Magazine, 24 Jan. 2024 -
The principal type of neuron in the cerebellum, called the Purkinje cell, is widely branching like a fan coral, yet flattened and nearly two-dimensional.
— R Douglas Fields, WIRED, 31 Mar. 2024 -
The Sixties version was a two-dimensional character defined largely by a hopeless crush on Spock.
— Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 14 June 2023 -
But that’s just the beginning: An image is two-dimensional but has no time dimension, whereas music is all about time—so the element of time has to be inserted by some means.
— Dan Falk, Smithsonian Magazine, 1 Mar. 2023 -
This special extra layer is a semiconductor sheet stamped with a two-dimensional array of nanoscale holes.
— Susumu Noda, IEEE Spectrum, 14 Apr. 2024 -
Consider the surface of a doughnut, or torus — a two-dimensional manifold.
— Jordana Cepelewicz, Quanta Magazine, 15 June 2023 -
With those data, visual effects (VFX) artists take the model from two-dimensional to three-dimensional.
— Lauren Leffer, Scientific American, 25 July 2023 -
Taking the form of two-dimensional, one-atom-thick sheets of carbon, this material has been snatching headlines for years thanks to its useful electronic and mechanical properties.
— Michael Irving, New Atlas, 1 Aug. 2024
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