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:

    “Gaze on them, till the tears shall dim thy sight,
    But keep that earlier, wilder image bright.”
    —William Cullen Bryant (1794–1878)

    “half-way up the hill, I see the Past
    Lying beneath me with its sounds and sights,—
    A city in the twilight dim and vast,
    With smoking roofs, soft bells, and gleaming lights,—
    And hear above me on the autumnal blast
    The cataract of Death far thundering from the heights.”
    —Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1809–1882)

    “The old world stands serenely behind the new, as one mountain yonder towers behind another, more dim and distant. Rome imposes her story still upon this late generation.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)