Example Sentences

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A Stokes number is a dimensionless figure that determines the behavior of particles suspended in a fluid flow.

From Salon • Dec. 28, 2023

These threats include not only warming temperatures but also mutating viruses and political corruption and tend to be invisible, dimensionless and pervasive, like death.

From New York Times • Mar. 31, 2016

All this useless beauty, in service of obscuring a lazy screenplay and aggressively dimensionless characters.

From Slate • Feb. 25, 2016

Notice that the drag coefficient is a dimensionless quantity.

From Textbooks • Aug. 12, 2015

It was as though I had expected to find them there, just as in those dreams in which I encountered my grandfather looking at me from across the dimensionless space of a dream-room.

From "Invisible Man" by Ralph Ellison