endimensionel

Endimensionel is an adjective used in several Nordic languages, including Danish, Norwegian, and Swedish, to mean one-dimensional. In English, the corresponding term is one-dimensional or 1D. The word describes objects, spaces, or models that have a single degree of freedom or a single spatial coordinate.

In geometry and topology, an endimensionel object has dimension one. The line is the canonical example: a straight or curved line is locally described by one parameter. More generally, a one-dimensional manifold is a space that is locally like an open interval but may be embedded in higher-dimensional space.

In data representation and computing, endimensionel often refers to data arranged along a single index, such as a one-dimensional array or a time series. Signals measured over time are typically treated as one-dimensional sequences.

In physics and engineering, one-dimensional models reduce problems to dependence on a single coordinate, facilitating analytic solutions such as the one-dimensional wave equation or diffusion along a line. In image processing or geometry, one-dimensional features are analyzed along a single axis.

Related concepts include zero-dimensional points and higher-dimensional spaces, as well as notions of dimension from topology (covering dimension) and metric dimensions such as Hausdorff dimension. The term emphasizes the simplicity of having one degree of freedom relative to more complex, multi-dimensional systems.