Dim
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Dim can mean:
- A low level of illumination (lighting); lacking in brightness. It may originate from the phrase "Darker than it was this morning."
- Stupidity, a lack of brightness in the intellectual sense; not smart.
- In most versions of the BASIC programming language, a keyword that declares an array.
- In Visual Basic .NET, a method to declare any variable.
- Dim (brand), a brand [1] of stockings and socks in Europe. The name is a shortened version of Bas Dimanche.
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 refer to: