Meaning & use

3D

adjective·Everyday

Having or appearing to have length, width, and depth, rather than a flat, two-dimensional form.

See it in a sentence

The children put on special glasses to watch the movie in 3D.

The engineer printed a 3D model of the new part overnight.

A note on using this word

3D is an abbreviation of 'three-dimensional' and is written with a capital D, without a space or hyphen.

Words with a similar meaning

three-dimensional

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