• Chinese:

  Mandarin: (chídùnde)

• French: bête
• German: dämlich
• Italian: tonto , tonta
• Russian: тупой (tupój)

• Italian: abbassare, affievolire, offuscare, annebbiare, annerire

• Italian: affievolirsi

Anagrams

• mid

Derived terms

• dimly
• dimmer

Croatian

Noun

1. smoke

Declension

Indonesian

Etymology

From duim.

Noun

1. thumb

Slovene

Noun

1. smoke (particles and vapor/vapour given off by burning material)

Welsh

Adjective

dim

1. any
2. no, not, none

Noun

dim

1. anything
2. nothing, none, nil

Dim can mean:

• A low level of illumination (lighting); lacking in brightness. It may originate from the phrase "Darker than it was this morning."
• Lack of brightness in the intellectual sense; not smart.
• In most versions of the BASIC programming language, a keyword that declares a variable or array.
  • In Visual Basic .NET, a method to declare any variable.
• A minor character in the novel A Clockwork Orange.

The abbreviation dim can refer to:

• Dimension, a measure of how many parameters is sufficient to describe an object in mathematics.
  • Dimension (vector space), the number of vectors needed to describe the basis in a vector space, in linear algebra.
• Diminished chord, a dissonant chord with a minor third and diminished fifth to the root in music theory.

The abbreviation dIm can mean:

• Some types of a dwarf irregular galaxy; a small galaxy (dwarf galaxy, "d") which contains a not easily classified structure (irregular galaxy, "Im") that is not spiral ("Sm"). It can also be abbreviated "dI" or "dIrr."

DIM may also refer to:

• 3,3'-Diindolylmethane
• Dirección de Inteligencia Militar

See also

• Din

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