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  • ...oadly : an element of a [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vector_space vector space] ...ite inner product; an element of a Euclidean vector space. In [[physics]], euclidean vectors are used to represent [[physical]] [[quantities]] that have both ma
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  • ...three [[dimension]]s of [[space]] and one dimension of time. By combining space and time into a single manifold, physicists have significantly simplified a ...l fields which can slow the passage of time.[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space-time_continuum]
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  • ...ht, as in the setting of [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euclidean_geometry Euclidean geometry]. .../Trigonometry trigonometry], and graphing are performed in two-dimensional space, or in other [[words]], in the plane. A lot of mathematics can be and has b
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  • ...ut into an axiomatic form by [[Euclid]], whose treatment set forth in his [Euclidean geometry]] became a standard for many centuries to follow. The field of [[a ..., spaces that are considerably more abstract than the familiar Euclidean [[space]], which they only approximately resemble at small scales. These spaces may
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  • ...se]] has three dimensions of space and one dimension of time. By combining space and time into a single manifold, physicists have significantly simplified a ...] contexts, however, time cannot be separated from the three dimensions of space, because the rate at which time passes depends on an object's velocity rela
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  • [[Three]]-[[dimensional]] [[space]] is a geometric 3-parameters model of the physical [[universe]] (without c ...space. It is commonly represented by the symbol [[File:R-3-2.jpg]] . This space is only one example of a great variety of spaces in three dimensions called
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  • ...a two-dimensional [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euclidean_space Euclidean space]).
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  • ...in n-dimensional [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euclidean_space Euclidean space].
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  • ...center>[https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=See_Illustration_25 space respiration?]</center>]] ...can be measured or is part of the measuring system. (See [[#In philosophy|Space in philosophy]].)
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  • ...ion''' is often identified with [[time]], and as such is used to explain [[space-time]] in Einstein's theories of [[special relativity]] and [[general relat ...that they add height. The fourth dimension is therefore the direction in space that is at right angles to these three observable directions.
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  • ...] makeup of a [[chemical]] compound especially with [[reference]] to the [[space]] relations of the constituent [[atoms]] ...c [[geometry]], such as the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euclidean_plane Euclidean] or projective planes, or as [[abstract]] incidence [[structures]]. In the
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  • ...tion]], is the way in which objects appear to the [[eye]] based on their [[space|spatial]] attributes, or their [[dimensions]] and the position of the eye [ ...f this triangle, and the less the visual angle. This follows simply from [[Euclidean geometry]].
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  • ...ball,"[1]) is a perfectly round geometrical object in three-dimensional [[space]], such as the shape of a round ball. Like a circle in two dimensions, a pe ...two-dimensional spherical surface embedded in three-dimensional Euclidean space, while a ball is a solid figure bounded by a sphere.
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  • ...anch of [[physics]] which is concerned with the description of [[Spacetime|space and time]] allowing for this dependence. The modern theory of relativity, d ...es, resulted in a theoretical framework for the unification of [[Spacetime|space and time]] in a four-[[dimensional]] [[continuum]] and for the equivalence
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  • ...d its double dual. Although a finite-dimensional vector space and its dual space are isomorphic, there is no canonical isomorphism. This lack of a canonical ...[[Jordan form]]). In contrast, an abstract ''n''-dimensional real vector space ''V'' would not have a canonical basis; it is isomorphic to '''R'''<sup>''n
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  • *Hubble Space Telescope image of M100 ...space. Despite our [[materialistic]] tendencies, [[the soul]] is not in [[space or time]]. As we will see in the next section, [[big-bang]] cosmology provi
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