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two-diˈmensional, a.
(also ˈtuː-)
1. Having or appearing to have length and breadth but no depth.
1883[see dimensional a. 2]. 1898Sir W. Crookes in Daily News 8 Sept. 6/3, I was like some two-dimensional being who might stand at the singular point of a Riemann's surface, and thus find himself in..inexplicable contact with a plane of existence not his own. 1954M. Rickert Painting in Britain: Middle Ages viii. 201 Two-dimensional compositions for glass panels. 1967E. Short Embroidery & Fabric Collage i. 8 Without realising what effect they will have when translated into a two-dimensional design.
2. fig. Lacking depth or substance; shallow, superficial.
1934C. Lambert Music Ho! v. 310 It is possible to detach Stravinsky's methods from their contents and apply Stravinsky scoring to any piece of music. Like everything else in his music, it is two-dimensional. 1959Times Lit. Suppl. 9 Oct. 573/4 By comparison Heart to Heart seems both shallow and hollow, a two-dimensional manufactured thing for an obvious mass market. 1977Broadcast 7 Nov. 13/1 ‘Hard Times’..is less a novel than..a strip cartoon with two-dimensional characters.
Hence two-dimensionality, the property of being two-dimensional; two-dimensionally adv., in, or in terms of, two dimensions; two-dimensionalness (rare).
1926H. Read Eng. Stained Glass i. 11/1 Two-dimensionality. No attempt is made to put the scene in strict spatial perspective. 1956Essays in Criticism VI. 219 The two-dimensionality of the canvases. 1958S. Spender Engaged in Writing 116 Her general two-dimensionalness permitted her to appear different on each side. 1961Webster, Two-dimensionally. 1968Jrnl. Physical Soc. Japan XXV. 934/1 The computations were made two-dimensionally. 1975I. Stewart Concepts Mod. Math. ii. 22 It is a consequence of the two-dimensionality of the plane that any rigid motion is uniquely specified by what it does to a (non-degenerate) triangle. 1978Spectator (New Canaan High School, Connecticut) 65 The world has become two-dimensionally black and white. 1979Jrnl. R. Soc. Arts July 509/1 The criticisms..that Ruskin saw architecture only two-dimensionally, and that he never seems to have looked at a building structurally, are refuted with ample quotations. |