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3-D

 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Having a three-dimensional form or appearance

Example:

aren't dreams always in 3-D?

Synonyms:

3-D; 3D; three-D

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Hypernyms ("3-D" is a kind of...):

appearance (a mental representation)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A movie with images having three dimensional form or appearance

Synonyms:

3-D; 3D; three-D

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Hypernyms ("3-D" is a kind of...):

film; flick; motion-picture show; motion picture; movie; moving-picture show; moving picture; pic; picture; picture show (a form of entertainment that enacts a story by sound and a sequence of images giving the illusion of continuous movement)

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 Context examples: 

The cells also produced high levels of modified tau, which formed threads in the 3-D culture.

(Human Cells Model Alzheimer’s Disease, NIH)

This technique requires a protein to first be crystallized into a fixed 3-D shape.

(Structural states of a brain receptor revealed, NIH)

The group next used 3-D printing to create a device that could capture and remove melittin from a solution.

(3-D gel-nanoparticle device detoxifies blood, NIH)

These 2-D images are then combined to yield a detailed 3-D view of the virus.

(Zika virus structure revealed, NIH)

The team 3-D printed the prototype, allowing the creators to rapidly develop a design that worked.

(New Invention Detects Cancer in Seconds, VOA/Elizabeth Lee)

The scientists formed 3-D woven textile scaffolds from a biomaterial.

(Stem cells grown on scaffold mimic hip joint cartilage, NIH)

Hydrogels are a 3-D water swollen polymer network, similar to Jell-O, simulating the structure of human tissues.

(Injectable Bandage Created, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

The serotonin transporter can be difficult to prepare for X-ray crystallography, a technique that creates an image of a protein’s 3-D structure.

(Serotonin transporter structure revealed, NIH)

A computer is used to make 2-dimensional (2-D) and 3-D pictures of the colon from these x-rays.

(Computed tomographic colonography, NCI Dictionary)

The 3-D structure of peptides.

(Peptide Conformation, NCI Thesaurus)