18 Metaphors for dimension

Boulton and Watt's 2 horse power wagon boiler has 30 square feet of surface, and the flue is 18 inches high above the level of the boiler bottom, by 9 inches wide; while their 12 horse wagon boiler has 118 square feet of heating surface, and the dimensions of the flue similarly measured are 36 inches by 13 inches.

It is difficult to withstand a suspicion that the three dimensions of space and the fourth dimension of time may be four independent variables of a system that is neither space nor time, but something else wholly unconceived by us.

The dimension of a perfected soul is two-thirds of the height which the individual had in his last existence.

Its dimensions were one hundred and twenty cubits in each direction.

Q.What are the dimensions of the cross head? A.If the length of the cross head be taken at 1.4 times the diameter of the cylinder, the dimensions of the cross head will be as follows:the exterior diameter of the eye in the cross head for the reception of the piston rod, will be equal to the diameter of the hole, plus 0.02827 times the cube root of the pressure on the piston in lbs.

in weight, while the dimensions in the baling press of the 400 lb. bale are 4'1" X 1'6" X 1' 4".

The dimensions are 99 miles in length by 27 miles in width, and the population is 472,728.

The dimensions of a spur-rowel, the length and thickness of a trouser-strap, the improvement of a whitening for belts which does not fall off, were questions which had more importance and interest for him than a question of State.

The dimensions of the tremendous volcanoes that are our property now are startling: Dimensions of Kilauea, Island of Hawaii.

On the other hand, the smaller the dimensions of the test specimen the greater becomes the relative effect of the inherent factors affecting the mechanical properties.

The dimensions are: Length 325 feet Breadth 38 " Depth of hold 11 " Width of cylinder.

The general dimensions are: Distance between pillars, 6 feet; height under girder, 5 feet;

The general dimensions were: Waist of boiler, 47 inches, 186 two inch tubes 10½ feet long; cylinders, 16 × 22 inches.

The dimensions were thirty-six feet by twenty, rough boarded, with a loft or upper story, for the spreading out of the green cocoons.

The dimensions were thirty-six feet by twenty, rough boarded, with a loft or upper story, for the spreading out of the green cocoons.

The trouble arises from the fact that they are arranged not one after the other in sequence on a flat plane; but rather in sequence, one after another, in a peculiar order which may be called the order of 'X-ness in space,' because it is neither the dimension of length, breadth, or depthit is practically the order of the fourth dimension in space, which cannot be described in terms of ordinary spatial dimension.

The leading dimensions of the eight wire rope tugs now worked by the company are as follows: Tugs

In the vicinity of the carbonized portions, those of the tracheæ that have not done so have perceptibly preserved their primitive length, which has, so to speak, been maintained by their neighbors, but their other dimensions have become much smallera quarter in thickness and half in length.

18 Metaphors for  dimension