Talk:Dimension

Is there a good reason to have this template rendered twice on this page? siddharthist (talk) 15:37, 5 March 2023 (UTC)

Appears removed in https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Dimension&diff=prev&oldid=1143058319&diffmode=source siddharthist (talk) 23:56, 5 March 2023 (UTC)

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/95/Dimensi%C3%B3n_1.png Fausto!'20045 (talk) 00:14, 20 April 2023 (UTC)

Why? –jacobolus (t) 00:23, 20 April 2023 (UTC)

What is missing as a separate article is drawing dimension [es] or drawing dimensions [es] Peter Horn User talk 19:08, 8 May 2023 (UTC)

Have you looked at Dimension (disambiguation)? —Tamfang (talk) 04:31, 10 May 2023 (UTC)

At the top of the article Dimension, you can read For the dimension of an object, see Size. So, it is possible that the article that you are looking for is Size. However, looking at the Spanish article, it seems that you are concerned with methods for representing dimensions in engineering drawing. This is shortly mentioned in Engineering drawing#Common features. So, it is at Talk:Engineering drawing that the possible creation of a page Dimension (engineering drawing) should be discussed. In any case, it is there, and not here that you can find competent editors for this subject. D.Lazard (talk) 09:32, 10 May 2023 (UTC)

No, It is not. See Acotación The Spanish equivalent size is Tamaño Peter Horn User talk 19:29, 31 July 2025 (UTC)

es:Acotación, es:Tamaño —Tamfang (talk) 02:07, 1 August 2025 (UTC)

Continuing from Talk:Dimension/Archive 1#Technical drawing:

The Spanish Wiki has an article called Acotación A transletion of the article to be called Drawing dimensioning will be very useful. When I have time I'll use Deepl Translate and/or Google Translate as a starter. Peter Horn User talk 19:10, 31 July 2025 (UTC)

See als0 Technical drawng Peter Horn User talk 19:39, 31 July 2025 (UTC)

Internal link form: es:Acotación —Tamfang (talk) 02:06, 1 August 2025 (UTC)

The relevant article here is Geometric dimensioning and tolerancing. –jacobolus (t) 19:51, 31 July 2025 (UTC)

This section contains a sentence that many would consider the wrong way around: "In its simplest form: a line describes one dimension, a plane describes two dimensions, and a cube describes three dimensions". It suggests that a space of a particular dimensionality "describes" corresponding dimensions, rather than dimensions and overall dimensionality being related to the degrees of freedom, and hence to the number of required coordinates, as per the page's introductory paragraphs.TonyP (talk) 09:08, 30 October 2023 (UTC)

I believe this passage is using the original definition of "describe", meaning something like "draw out". You are interpreting it using the later (but now a bit more common) definition, meaning something like "tell about". Here's a concrete example from a 19th century book: "A point moving along a line describes a row. A line turning about a point describes a pencil". Our passage is using the word slightly differently from that, and is definitely a bit awkward and potentially ambiguous though, and could probably be improved by a rewrite. –jacobolus (t) 18:45, 30 October 2023 (UTC)

Please discuss at Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Mathematics#Disambiguation_of_Two-dimensional_space. fgnievinski (talk) 03:49, 6 December 2023 (UTC)