dimensioned

1. 1
   verb

   Simple past and past participle of dimension.

   She dimensioned the sketch so the builders knew every measurement.

   The lumber was dimensioned to standard sizes at the mill.

   Note

   One regular -ed spelling serves as both the past tense and the participle: she dimensioned the part, and the part was dimensioned. It carries both of the verb's working senses. One is the drafter's sense of marking or cutting something to specified sizes. The other is the programmer's sense of fixing the size of an array, that is, allocating it.

2. 2
   adjective

   Possessing physical dimensions and therefore expressed with units, rather than being a pure, dimensionless number.

   Velocity is a dimensioned quantity, measured in meters per second.

   Engineers keep dimensioned values separate from the dimensionless coefficients in their equations.

   Similardimensional

   Oppositedimensionless, unitless

   Note

   The adjective is defined mostly by what it is not: a quantity that is not dimensionless, not a pure number. Dimensionful says the same thing, and either word can stand opposite dimensionless, with ratios and pure counts on the other side. Keep it apart from the drafting verb's participle: a dimensioned speed has units, while a dimensioned drawing has its measurements marked on it.

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