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Webster's New Millennium™ Dictionary of English - Cite This Source - Share This
| Main Entry: | dimensional analysis |
| Part of Speech: | n |
| Definition: | a method of mathematical analysis that focuses on the dimensions of length, mass, time, etc., which aims to simplify a problem by dealing only with essential parameters; a technique of calculating with physical quantities in which units are included and treated in the same way as numbers |
| Etymology: | mathematics |
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dimensional analysis
–noun Physics.
| a method for comparing the dimensions of the physical quantities occurring in a problem to find relationships between the quantities without having to solve the problem completely. Compare dimension (def. 6). |
[Origin: 1920–25
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