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[dim] DIMNESS is a measure of an object's luminosity. DIM or dimness may
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** Computing
- .dim, a disk image
- A keyword in most versions of the BASIC programming language
** Chemistry, biology, and medicine
- 3,3'-Diindolylmethane , an anticarcinogen compound
** Organizations
- Corporación Deportiva Independiente Medellín , a Colombian football club
- Deportivo Independiente Miraflores , a football club based in the city of Miraflores, Lima, Perú
- Dialogue Interreligieux Monastique, the European arm of the DIMMID , a movement promoting interfaith dialogue between monastic communities
- Dirección de Inteligencia Militar , the military intelligence agency of Venezuela
** People
- Nickname of John Wooldridge (1919–1958), British film music composer and Second World War bomber pilot
** Places
- Dim, Amur Oblast , a rural locality in Amur Oblast, Russia
- Dim, Iran , a village in South Khorasan Province
** Other uses
- To dim , verb that means to lower the brightness of light
- Dim, a European rhinoceros beetle in the 1998 Disney/Pixar animated film _A Bug's Life_
- "DiM ", a 1998 episode of _Dexter's Laboratory_
- _Dim_ (album) , the fourth studio album by Japanese rock band The Gazette
The abbreviation DIM may 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 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
** See also
- Din (disambiguation)
- Global dimming
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