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:

    “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)

    “Gradually I regained my usual composure. I reread Pale Fire more carefully. I liked it better when expecting less. And what was that? What was that dim distant music, those vestiges of color in the air? Here and there I discovered in it and especially, especially in the invaluable variants, echoes and spangles of my mind, a long ripplewake of my glory.”
    —Vladimir Nabokov (1899–1977)

    “This girl borrowed no dim light of a star
    Nor ever night held her in a dark mesh,
    A slim bloom she stood of the first larkspur,
    A wind of spring fluttered in her white flesh.”
    —Allen Tate (1899–1979)