Dim

Dim may refer to:

  • A low level of lighting; lacking in brightness
    • Dimmers, a device to vary the brightness
  • A keyword that declares a variable or array, in most versions of BASIC
  • Stupidity, a lack of intelligence
  • Dim (album), the fourth studio album by Japanese rock band The Gazette
  • Dim, Iran, a village in South Khorasan Province, Iran

The abbreviation dim may refer to:

  • Deportivo Independiente Medellín, a Colombian football club
  • 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 triad, a dissonant chord with a minor third and diminished fifth to the root in music theory
  • Diminuendo, a word indicating changes of dynamics in music
  • Diminutive, a formation of a word
  • Diploma in Management, a non-academic management designation awarded in Diploma Programs

The abbreviation dIm may 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, an anticarcinogen compound
  • Dirección de Inteligencia Militar, the military intelligence agency of Venezuela

Famous quotes containing the word dim:

    “What do the botanists know? Our lives should go between the lichen and the bark. The eye may see for the hand, but not for the mind. We are still being born, and have as yet but a dim vision of sea and land, sun, moon, and stars, and shall not see clearly till after nine days at least.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    “my brain
    Worked with a dim and undetermined sense
    Of unknown modes of being; o’er my thoughts
    There hung a darkness, call it solitude
    Or blank desertion.”
    —William Wordsworth (1770–1850)

    “When the spirit brings light into our minds, it dispels darkness. We see it, as we do that of the sun at noon, and need not the twilight of reason to show it us. This light from heaven is strong, clear, and pure carries its own demonstration with it; and we may as naturally take a glow-worm to assist us to discover the sun, as to examine the celestial ray by our dim candle, reason.”
    —John Locke (1632–1704)