- Advances slowly
- Crawls very short distances
- Edges
- Imperial units
- Length units
- Old units of length
- Parts of the yard
- Ale holders
- Drays parked haphazardly in enclosures
- Enclosures
- Fenced enclosures
- Gardens
- Imperial measures lawn areas
- Inches, feet and ...
- Metre divisions
- Units of length
- 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.
- Extent; reach; scope; importance; as, a project of large
dimensions.
- The degree of manifoldness of a quantity; as, time is
quantity having one dimension; volume has three dimensions, relative to
extension.
- 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.
- The manifoldness with which the fundamental units of
time, length, and mass are involved in determining the units of other
physical quantities.
- An abbreviation for Centimeter, Gram, Second. -- applied to
a system of units much employed in physical science, based upon the
centimeter as the unit of length, the gram as the unit of weight or
mass, and the second as the unit of time.