How to Use two-dimensional in a Sentence

two-dimensional

adjective
  • 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
  • For example, a two-dimensional cross-section of a nautilus shell shows shapes with curved boundaries and two cusps.
    Margherita Bassi, Smithsonian Magazine, 24 Sep. 2024
  • 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
  • In one perspective, physicists see a two-dimensional universe that is flat.
    Charlie Wood, Quanta Magazine, 25 Sep. 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

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