How to Use three-dimensional in a Sentence

three-dimensional

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  • The major league strike zone is a three-dimensional prism above the plate that runs from the midpoint between the shoulders and top of the pants to the bottom of the kneecaps.
    — Alex Speier, BostonGlobe.com, 31 Aug. 2023
  • The Aero has a three-dimensional top pocket for small items and a trolley sleeve to slide over your suitcase handle.
    — Theresa Holland, Travel + Leisure, 5 Apr. 2023
  • Those use video and three-dimensional graphics to tell the story of how the jacket tradition came to be.
    — Sam Farmer, Los Angeles Times, 7 Apr. 2023
  • Using a process called photogrammetry, Hood’s team can use the photos to build a three-dimensional map of the basin.
    — Anna Canny, Anchorage Daily News, 13 Aug. 2023
  • Usually, the cells need a three-dimensional platform to guide their growth, known as a scaffold.
    — Yasmin Tayag, The Atlantic, 8 Mar. 2024
  • Hugh Grant became immersed in the concept of the swing being three-dimensional.
    — Mike Barnes, The Hollywood Reporter, 25 Nov. 2023
  • The dress also featured three-dimensional gold appliqués around the hem.
    — Hanna Lustig, Glamour, 26 Feb. 2024
  • The controls move the bridge up and down, and side to side, a three-dimensional dance reminiscent of docking a rocket capsule.
    — Alexandra Skores, Dallas News, 5 June 2023
  • Cubic Feet: This is a measurement used to express the volume of a three-dimensional space.
    — Nicole Pyles, Better Homes & Gardens, 30 Mar. 2024
  • Test 7: ‘A flat heart’ Maybe three-dimensional crochet is too much for a language-learning AI to handle.
    — Aj Willingham, CNN, 8 July 2023
  • Shaw also suggests using ribbon with wire to help add a three-dimensional look to the wreath's design.
    — Gia Yetikyel, Vogue, 23 Dec. 2023
  • But some things never change, and that's Fox's love for three-dimensional nail accessories.
    — Marci Robin, Allure, 15 Jan. 2024
  • The task in this new work was to take the linear string of amino acids that form a protein and use that to predict how those amino acids are arranged in three-dimensional space once the protein is mature.
    — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 16 Mar. 2023
  • All six of the coffins, which were cast from compounds of copper, were adorned with three-dimensional depictions of lizards, snakes and eels, some of which featured human heads.
    — Sam Walters, Discover Magazine, 27 Apr. 2023
  • And the stunning three-dimensional projections by Daniel Brodie bring a lush, cinematic feel to the show.
    — Pam Kragen, San Diego Union-Tribune, 11 Jan. 2024
  • Such is the case of NeverNoT’s three-dimensional gemstone and gold luggage charms.
    — Beth Bernstein, Forbes, 19 Feb. 2023
  • Its bottle was carved from a block of wood to approximate a three-dimensional rendering of a sound wave.
    — Demetrius Simms, Robb Report, 31 Jan. 2024
  • The integer distance points become points in three-dimensional space that lie on the cone and also on a certain lattice.
    — Quanta Magazine, 1 Apr. 2024
  • As shown during testing, the dimension of the sponge's shape doesn't play a huge role since the flat side of the silicone blender applied foundation as well as the three-dimensional sponges.
    — Madison Yauger, Peoplemag, 6 Apr. 2023
  • There is even a reed-bundle boat found in Kuwait, dated 5000 BCE, that is considered to be the oldest three-dimensional model of a large-scale object.
    — Kyle Orland, Ars Technica, 2 Jan. 2024
  • To identify hurdles of the more three-dimensional variety, Cloud puts her clients through the motions.
    — Amanda Long, Washington Post, 17 Feb. 2024
  • The artist arrays on black backdrops abstract patterns of three-dimensional 23-karat gold.
    — Mark Jenkins, Washington Post, 25 Aug. 2023
  • These are made using a three-dimensional camera that is built into the Vision Pro itself.
    — Kevin Roose, New York Times, 31 Jan. 2024
  • What’s needed, of course, is a better way to record whale song that captures its full three-dimensional complexity.
    — The Physics Arxiv Blog, Discover Magazine, 5 Jan. 2024
  • This can make a big difference: In familiar three-dimensional space, the strength of the electric field produced by a charge is inversely related to the square of the distance from that charge.
    — Steve Nadis, Quanta Magazine, 19 Sep. 2023
  • It's made of a luxuriously soft and stretchy spacer fabric, which has a thick, three-dimensional quality and a light-as-air feel.
    — Theresa Holland, Travel + Leisure, 26 Oct. 2023
  • These are plays as games, as three-dimensional sketches being dashed out, erased, and redrawn in real time, always reflecting on the soul of his home country and on the soul of the theatrical form.
    — Sara Holdren, Vulture, 25 Jan. 2024
  • AlphaFold predicts the three-dimensional structure of proteins from sequences of amino acids.
    — Ingrid Wickelgren, Scientific American, 29 Mar. 2023
  • The black bomber jacket features three-dimensional rosettes, providing lots of texture all over.
    — Jessie Quinn, Peoplemag, 17 Oct. 2023
  • In 1977, Robert Lutz figured out how to create a new contact structure on any three-dimensional manifold.
    — Leila Sloman, Quanta Magazine, 7 Nov. 2023

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