How to Use two-dimensional in a Sentence

two-dimensional

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  • When the tiny threads are closed and move through spacetime in a wobbly manner, their track forms a two-dimensional tube.
    — Manon Bischoff, Scientific American, 5 Feb. 2024
  • When the device is on (when 6 V are applied to the gate), electrons flow from the drain to the source in a flat region called a two-dimensional electron gas.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 26 Mar. 2023
  • Next, map the circle onto the two-dimensional surface of an inner tube (a one-holed torus).
    — Kevin Hartnett, Quanta Magazine, 22 Aug. 2023
  • Gomez’s pinstriped suit was cut and tailored to keep the stripes linear and almost two-dimensional on the actor’s round body.
    — Valli Herman, Los Angeles Times, 21 June 2023
  • Many years of trial and error have revealed that such wide swaths are best applied while the map is still two-dimensional.
    — Tom Weijand, Robb Report, 10 Aug. 2024
  • As lidars slim down and scale up, the days of pure two-dimensional image sensing seem numbered.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 8 Mar. 2023
  • The flourishes may be two-dimensional, but because of them, the car looks just like one Arsham’s sculptures.
    — Bryan Hood, Robb Report, 21 Apr. 2023
  • But that is mostly a two-dimensional effect, the product of extruding the building’s stack of floor plates.
    — Mark Lamster, Dallas News, 3 May 2023
  • These define a two-dimensional subspace — a flat plane parallel to the floor.
    — Anil Ananthaswamy, Quanta Magazine, 13 Apr. 2023
  • Everybody’s trying to make this jump from a two-dimensional, static image on page to live action, and some things have to change.
    — Adam B. Vary, Variety, 24 Feb. 2023
  • The current exhibit at the JCC is more two-dimensional, Rosenberg said.
    — Jacob Gurvis, Sun Sentinel, 21 Apr. 2023
  • Neutral-atom arrays can be a two-dimensional grid, which is much easier to scale up.
    — Philip Ball, Quanta Magazine, 25 Mar. 2024
  • The new emblem is darker and more two-dimensional than the chrome badge seen on current Genesis models.
    — Joey Capparella, Car and Driver, 6 Apr. 2023
  • The middle third of the film is poorly paced; horror gimmicks that initially shock are, at times, overused; and the visuals can sometimes feel two-dimensional and bland.
    — Lucas Trevor, Washington Post, 18 Sep. 2023
  • The two-dimensional art in the building has been moved, but some of the massive sculptures created by artist Ralphael Plescia are embedded in the structure and cannot be moved.
    — Palak Jayswal, The Salt Lake Tribune, 4 Aug. 2023
  • But that would be possible only because the lattice on the paper is two-dimensional.
    — Kelsey Houston-Edwards, Scientific American, 16 Jan. 2024
  • The model can take a short text description of the game, a photo, or even a small sketch of what a game screen should look like and then generate a simple two-dimensional, arcade-style game from that input.
    — Jeremy Kahn, Fortune, 5 Mar. 2024
  • The film cuts abruptly to the desktop of the Microsoft Windows operating system — the two-dimensional green hills against an eternal clear blue sky.
    — Lovia Gyarkye, The Hollywood Reporter, 23 Jan. 2024
  • All of the two-dimensional art is out, Plant-Nenninger said, except for a painting on the ceiling of the top floor — where Plescia painted portraits of family members who had died.
    — Palak Jayswal, The Salt Lake Tribune, 4 Aug. 2023
  • In the web-like corporate structure where HQ is not at the center of everything, the pendulum is no longer merely on a two-dimensional axis.
    — Orianna Rosa Royle, Fortune, 5 Sep. 2024
  • An image became an array of numbers, a two-dimensional grid that represented the brightness of the sky at each pixel.
    — Phil Plait, Scientific American, 7 June 2024
  • Modeled from songs from the album, the not-for-sale-collection flaunted past two-dimensional stylings and signaled to the higher cultures of Kemet, China, and Homeric Greece.
    — Killian Wright-Jackson, Essence, 1 Dec. 2023
  • In a separate study, a different group of researchers—also based at CU Boulder—used lasers to hold strontium atoms in a single two-dimensional plane.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 15 Oct. 2023
  • Create the illusion of a two-dimensional Christmas tree with these colorful light strands.
    — Toni Sutton, Peoplemag, 2 Dec. 2023
  • The principal type of neuron in the cerebellum, called the Purkinje cell, is widely branching like a fan coral, yet flattened and nearly two-dimensional.
    — Rebecca Boyle, Quanta Magazine, 24 Jan. 2024
  • The principal type of neuron in the cerebellum, called the Purkinje cell, is widely branching like a fan coral, yet flattened and nearly two-dimensional.
    — R Douglas Fields, WIRED, 31 Mar. 2024
  • The Sixties version was a two-dimensional character defined largely by a hopeless crush on Spock.
    — Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 14 June 2023
  • But that’s just the beginning: An image is two-dimensional but has no time dimension, whereas music is all about time—so the element of time has to be inserted by some means.
    — Dan Falk, Smithsonian Magazine, 1 Mar. 2023
  • This special extra layer is a semiconductor sheet stamped with a two-dimensional array of nanoscale holes.
    — Susumu Noda, IEEE Spectrum, 14 Apr. 2024
  • Consider the surface of a doughnut, or torus — a two-dimensional manifold.
    — Jordana Cepelewicz, Quanta Magazine, 15 June 2023

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