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n-dimensional

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    From n- (number) + dimensional.

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    n-dimensional (not comparable)

    1. (mathematics) Having an arbitrary number of dimensions.
      • 2020 April 7, Peter Conrad, “Abolish Silicon Valley by Wendy Liu review – rebooting our reality”, in The Guardian[1], archived from the original on 14 June 2025:
        We now have good reason to question the pursuits of the vaunted innovators with whom Liu consorted in California – the blissed-out cultists at Google, whose only worry is over “the wrong kind of sparkling water in the microkitchens”, or the manic experts who specialise in “envisioning hyperplanes in n-dimensional space”.

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