flatland
pronunciation
How to pronounce flatland in British English:
UK [f'lætlænd]
How to pronounce flatland in American English:
US [f'lætlænd]
Word Origin
- flatland (n.)
- 1735, from flat (adj.) + land (n.). Edwin Abbott's popular book about an imaginary two-dimensional world was published in 1884.
Example
- 1. Perhaps , if you look closely enough , we live in flatland after all .
- 2. Two-dimensional " flatland " is just right , with just enough room for interesting and useful things to arise .
- 3. Flatland and multi-dimensional hyperspace make fine playgrounds for the mind , but our bodies seem stuck in a space of three dimensions
- 4. Rather it became an " ontological flatland " or great interlocking order , to be investigated by merely empirical ( right hand ) approaches only .
- 5. Other applications include lensing and the ability to do " flatland " fourier transforms , a fundamental aspect of signal processing that is found in nearly every piece of technology with audio or visual components .