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Liveinjapan Posted 17 years ago
Grammar

Three dimensional object

Could you tell me a usual way to describe a three dimensional object, for example, a fridge?

This fridge is 30cm wide, 20cm --- , and 50cm high.

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) This is more like the third dimension of a photograph, or painting. " (the dimension "away from you") Edit. I just double checked an industrial equipment catalog: "Wd.

— Avangi

  • ) This is more like the third dimension of a photograph, or painting.
  • " (the dimension "away from you") Edit.
  • I just double checked an industrial equipment catalog: "Wd.
  • x Dp.
  • " We'd also speak of the depth of a closet, or a garage, or a cave which runs straight back into a mountain - and, of course, of a hole, regardless of orientation.
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I know it seems strange, but we usually say "deep." (Usually, a swimming pool has depth.) This is more like the third dimension of a photograph, or painting. "The painting has depth." (the dimension "away from you")

Edit. I just double checked an industrial equipment catalog: "Wd. x Dp. x Ht."

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Got it!
Thanks, Avangi.
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