The alternative on which much of our theories are based is that the conceptual absolute is best defined as a dimensionless point.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Arrow of Time in Scientific American] Reference

According to the Mohists, the dimensionless does not.    From Wordnik.com.  [School of Names] Reference

And it's in degrees C since the log is dimensionless.    From Wordnik.com.  [Unthreaded #21 « Climate Audit] Reference

I'm resolved to play the game, dimensionless as it is.    From Wordnik.com.  [atrandom Diary Entry] Reference

The dimensionless probably refers to a geometric point.    From Wordnik.com.  [School of Names] Reference

You™re a dimensionless form, but I see that very well.    From Wordnik.com.  [Stormblade]

Richard, those are dimensionless values derived from Eg/Eb.    From Wordnik.com.  [Unthreaded #19 « Climate Audit] Reference

Unsolicited Advice VIII: Make your integrals dimensionless ».    From Wordnik.com.  [Read the Scripts] Reference

The dimensionless cannot be accumulated, its size is a thousand miles.    From Wordnik.com.  [School of Names] Reference

Tree ring chronologies are already standardized to dimensionless ratios.    From Wordnik.com.  [Reply to Huybers #1 « Climate Audit] Reference

A starting point (duan) is the dimensionless tip of a solid object (A61).    From Wordnik.com.  [School of Names] Reference

The y-axis is dimensionless units in a usual chronology 1 instead of 1000.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Updated Gaspé Series « Climate Audit] Reference

The dimensionless cannot be accumulated, yet its size is a thousand miles.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2007-07-01] Reference

His reply is inconsistent: tree ring chronologies are in dimensionless units.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hugues Goosse and the Unresponsiveness of Juckes « Climate Audit] Reference

The RW chronologies are in dimensionless units centered on 1 multiplied to 1000.    From Wordnik.com.  [Briffa et al 2001 – More on Divergence « Climate Audit] Reference

In theoretical physics, entropy is viewed as essentially a dimensionless quantity.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sewell's Thermodynamic Failure - The Panda's Thumb] Reference

Dive into the dimensionless "520 at 8: 30," from the 2007 full-length Language Barrier.    From Wordnik.com.  [Phil Ramone and Danielle Evin: Dog Ears Music: Volume 101] Reference

There was nothing, of course, but the silent dimensionless void outside of the windows.    From Wordnik.com.  [365 tomorrows » 2008 » January : A New Free Flash Fiction SciFi Story Every Day] Reference

Yet like them he was dimensionless; he might have been within hand's touch or a mile away.    From Wordnik.com.  [Drums of Autumn]

Nahle did not explain that the Grashof number is dimensionless, in other words it is a ratio.    From Wordnik.com.  [Unthreaded #18 « Climate Audit] Reference

He creates a dimensionless point of matter and a dimensionless point of light imposed upon it.    From Wordnik.com.  [October 17th, 2009] Reference

The screen turned featureless gray as the pickups stared blindly into some dimensionless noplace.    From Wordnik.com.  [Space Viking]

Alpha is just a parameter to convert units from the dimensionless proxy composite to temperature.    From Wordnik.com.  [Juckes and 99.98% Significance « Climate Audit] Reference

It is the dimensionless world of the subconscious mind or, as Priestley called it, the Unconscious.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ballardian » Landscapes From a Dream: How the Art of David Pelham Captured the Essence of J G Ballard’s Early Fiction] Reference

EROI is a dimensionless number, while energy surplus refers to an actual physical quantity of energy.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ten fundamental principles of net energy] Reference

However, the relevant effects are parametrized by a dimensionless constant which is no larger than 10-20.    From Wordnik.com.  [Matter v Antimatter II: Electroweak Baryogenesis] Reference

Slowly it grew in brilliance; and then it was no longer a dimensionless point, but was becoming elongated.    From Wordnik.com.  [2010 Odyssey Two]

The events of this spacetime are generalizations of the dimensionless points of ordinary spatial geometry.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Hole Argument] Reference

Values are dimensionless, being the change in the difference of two normalized time series in each grid box.    From Wordnik.com.  [Briffa: Large-Scale Decline in Ring Widths « Climate Audit] Reference

K or the “soil index” is a dimensionless factor which measures the relative resistance of a soil to erosion.    From Wordnik.com.  [2.1. Factors in rainfall erosion] Reference

The spaceport was a narrow ledge, so narrow as to be a dimensionless line until Speaker moved the ship inward.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ringworld]

Therefore, as I previously mentioned, “now” cannot be a dimensionless point, as there would be no motion to measure.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Arrow of Time in Scientific American] Reference

As for space, what would you consider as the default description of space, the dimensionless point, or the featureless void?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Incompatible Arrows, III: Lewis Carroll] Reference

L. S or the “slope index” is a dimensionless factor; it indicates the effect of the angle and length of the slope (see fig.A. 2).    From Wordnik.com.  [2.1. Factors in rainfall erosion] Reference

If time and space are one day shown to consist of quanta, the quanta could all exist piled together in a single dimensionless point.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Illusion of Time] Reference

However it has a strong intuitive pull, and once again one should show how any dimensionless points actually do make an extended whole.    From Wordnik.com.  [Zeno's Paradoxes] Reference

There was nothing that looked like an asteroid; all the images, even under the highest magnification, were dimensionless points of light.    From Wordnik.com.  [2001 A Space Odyssey]

He clearly thinks lines and other continua contain different-sized infinities of points or indivisibles, viewed as dimensionless simples.    From Wordnik.com.  [Robert Grosseteste] Reference

The integral of the above equation, expressed in dimensionless numbers, is.    From Wordnik.com.  [CreationWiki - Recent changes [en]] Reference

The universe is a singularity - an infinitesimally small dimensionless point.    From Wordnik.com.  [Yahoo! Answers: Latest Questions] Reference