-dimensionally
formal
in a way that measures something on a scale(= a set of numbers to measure or compare the level of something):
Trained interviewers rated the disorder dimensionally on a 5-point scale.
Each anxiety symptom was assessed dimensionally rather than as the presence or absence of a disorder.
The crystals were dimensionally characterized along the three axes.
The use of moulds is commonly associated with a dimensionally homogeneous product.
There are a variety of scales to dimensionally measure severity of symptoms, disability, and quality of life.

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Measurements in general
altitude
bathymetric
bathymetrically
bathymetry
be running at somethingidiom
calibrate
cubic
drop
elevation
factor
knee-length
metric
micro
pico-
scale
setting
stopping distance
tera-
uncalibrated
unmeasurable

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Conditions and characteristics
-dimensionally
suffix
uk /-daɪ.men.ʃən.əl.i//-dɪ.men.ʃən.əl.i/ us /-daɪ.men.ʃən.əl.i//-dɪ.men.ʃən.əl.i/
in a way that has or appears to have the stated number of dimensions(= measurements such as height, length, or width): （后缀）...维地
The backgrounds are rendered in beautiful lifelike graphics rather than being drawn two-dimensionally.背景使用了美丽逼真的图像，而不是二维的平面图形。
This is a type of navigation that allows an aircraft to fly a specific path between two 3-dimensionally defined points in space.这是一种导航方式，允许飞机在空间中的两个三维定义点之间飞行特定路径。
Cancer cells grown in a petri dish in the lab are not like cancer cells in the body, because they tend to grow two-dimensionally.
He had the idea of draping fabric in a way that fits onto the body almost three-dimensionally.
The treatment addresses scoliosis 3-dimensionally, to correct the spine in every direction.
I prefer creating sculptural works because it is actually easier for me to think three-dimensionally.

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Geometrical shapes
-cornered
circularly
congruently
conic
cylindrically
lozenge
ovally
ovoid
parallelogram
pentagon
polyhedron
polytope
prism
pyramid
pyramidical
quadrilateral
rectangle
rectangular
rhombus
three-dimensional

Examples of dimensionally

dimensionally
We have until recently been one-dimensionally occupied with older people as targets of politics rather than as actual or potential actors.
A three-dimensional model of serial cross sections of the coronary arteries shows the inner surface three-dimensionally through the outer surface.
The distribution of most of the 15 common species could be characterized three-dimensionally by vegetation type and height above forest floor.
As described in the previous section, colony growth takes place on the agar surface two-dimensionally.
In this work consideration was given to both progressive and standing waves of small (but finite) amplitude propagating two dimensionally.
Diagnosticians suppose that parallel forms are constructed such that they are dimensionally identical.
In any case humans use landscapes two dimensionally, often from foci hard to find.
The streets are used one dimensionally and are left to slowly sink into unconsciousness.
Data on neuroticism reveal consistently that neuroticism is genetically related to both depression (measured categorically or dimensionally) and anxiety.
However, when recombination processes are included, we need to incorporate velocities threedimensionally, while space may still be treated one-dimensionally.
Synchronization, anticipation, and consistency in motor timing of children with dimensionally defined attention deficit hyperactivity behaviour.
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