Strand vs. Dimension — What's the Difference?

Land, typically a beach, bordering a body of water.

In physics and mathematics, the dimension of a mathematical space (or object) is informally defined as the minimum number of coordinates needed to specify any point within it. Thus a line has a dimension of one (1D) because only one coordinate is needed to specify a point on it – for example, the point at 5 on a number line.

A complex of fibers or filaments that have been twisted together to form a cable, rope, thread, or yarn.

A measurable extent of a particular kind, such as length, breadth, depth, or height

A single filament, such as a fiber or thread, of a woven or braided material.

An aspect or feature of a situation

A ropelike length of something

Cut or shape (something) to particular measurements.

A wisp or lock of hair.

A measure of spatial extent, especially width, height, or length.

One of the elements woven together to make an intricate whole, such as the plot of a novel.

Often dimensions Extent or magnitude; scope

To drive or run (a boat, for example) ashore or aground.

Aspect; element

To cause (a whale or other sea animal) to be unable to swim free from a beach or from shallow water.

The least number of independent coordinates required to specify uniquely the points in a space.

To bring into or leave in a difficult or helpless position

The range of such a coordinate.

(Baseball) To leave (a base runner) on base at the end of an inning.

(Physics) A physical property, such as mass, distance, time, or a combination thereof, regarded as a fundamental measure of a physical quantity

(Linguistics) To separate (a grammatical element) from other elements in a construction, either by moving it out of the construction or moving the rest of the construction. In the sentence What are you aiming at, the preposition at has been stranded.

A realm of existence, as in a work of fiction, that is physically separate from another such realm

To be driven or run ashore or aground

To cut or shape to specified dimensions.

To be stranded, as on a beach. Used of sea animals.

To mark with specified dimensions.

To make or form (a rope, for example) by twisting strands together.

A single aspect of a given thing.

To break a strand of (a rope, for example).

A measure of spatial extent in a particular direction, such as height, width or breadth, or depth.

The shore or beach of the sea or ocean; shore; beach.

A construct whereby objects or individuals can be distinguished.

The shore or beach of a lake or river.

(geometry) The number of independent coordinates needed to specify uniquely the location of a point in a space; also, any of such independent coordinates.

A small brook or rivulet.

(linear algebra) The number of elements of any basis of a vector space.

A passage for water; gutter.

(physics) One of the physical properties that are regarded as fundamental measures of a physical quantity, such as mass, length and time.

A street.

(computing) Any of the independent ranges of indices in a multidimensional array.

Each of the strings which, twisted together, make up a yarn, rope or cord.

A universe or plane of existence.

A string.

(transitive) To mark, cut or shape something to specified dimensions.

An individual length of any fine, string-like substance.

To specify the size of (an array or similar data structure); to allocate.

(electronics) A group of wires, usually twisted or braided.

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(broadcasting) A series of programmes on a particular theme or linked subject.

Measure in a single line, as length, breadth, height, thickness, or circumference; extension; measurement; - usually, in the plural, measure in length and breadth, or in length, breadth, and thickness; extent; size; as, the dimensions of a room, or of a ship; the dimensions of a farm, of a kingdom.

(figurative) An element in a composite whole; a sequence of linked events or facts; a logical thread.

Extent; reach; scope; importance; as, a project of large dimensions.

(genetics) A nucleotide chain.

The degree of manifoldness of a quantity; as, time is quantity having one dimension; volume has three dimensions, relative to extension.

To run aground; to beach.

A literal factor, as numbered in characterizing a term. The term dimensions forms with the cardinal numbers a phrase equivalent to degree with the ordinal; thus, a2b2c is a term of five dimensions, or of the fifth degree.

To leave (someone) in a difficult situation; to abandon or desert.

The manifoldness with which the fundamental units of time, length, and mass are involved in determining the units of other physical quantities.

To cause the third out of an inning to be made, leaving a runner on base.

The magnitude of something in a particular direction (especially length or width or height)

(transitive) To break a strand of (a rope).

A construct whereby objects or individuals can be distinguished;

(transitive) To form by uniting strands.

One of three cartesian coordinates that determine a position in space

One of the twists, or strings, as of fibers, wires, etc., of which a rope is composed.

Magnitude or extent;

The shore, especially the beach of a sea, ocean, or large lake; rarely, the margin of a navigable river.

Indicate the dimensions on;

To break a strand of (a rope).

Shape or form to required dimensions

To drive on a strand; hence, to run aground; as, to strand a ship.

To drift, or be driven, on shore to run aground; as, the ship stranded at high water.

A pattern forming a unity within a larger structural whole;

Line consisting of a complex of fibers or filaments that are twisted together to form a thread or a rope or a cable

A necklace made by a stringing objects together;

A very slender natural or synthetic fiber

A poetic term for a shore (as the area periodically covered and uncovered by the tides)

A street in west central London famous for its theaters and hotels

Leave stranded or isolated withe little hope og rescue;