3D

 Dictionary entry overview: What does 3D mean? 

• 3D (noun)
  The noun 3D has 2 senses:

1. a movie with images having three dimensional form or appearance

2. having a three-dimensional form or appearance

  Familiarity information: 3D used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• 3D (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A movie with images having three dimensional form or appearance

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

3-D; 3D; three-D

Hypernyms ("3D" 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)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Having a three-dimensional form or appearance

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Synonyms:

3-D; 3D; three-D

Context example:

aren't dreams always in 3-D?

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

appearance (a mental representation)

 Context examples 

3d, The said man-mountain shall confine his walks to our principal high roads, and not offer to walk, or lie down, in a meadow or field of corn.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

The scientists 3D printed the bioreactor out of silicon and filled it with hydrogel — a sticky glob of polymers.

(Scientists Help Frogs to Regenerate Their Limbs with Bioreactor Device, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

The VIMOS Ultra-Deep Survey provides an unprecedented 3D map of the distribution of over 10 000 galaxies in the distant Universe.

(Largest Galaxy Proto-Supercluster Found, ESO)

The suspensions are then imaged with electrons to obtain molecular images that are averaged together to discern a three-dimensional (3D) protein structure.

(Near-atomic resolution of protein structure by electron microscopy holds promise for drug discovery, NIH)

The coordinates of 1,339 classical Cepheids marked on a 3D map created a twisted and warped galactic disk of our big home.

(Scientists Say Milky Way Is Warped & Twisted Not Flat, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

Because the 3D brain-like tissue displays physical properties similar to rodent brain tissue, the researchers sought to determine whether they could use it to study traumatic brain injury.

(Bioengineers create functional 3D brain-like tissue, NIH)

Using high-resolution 3D images and special light-activated probes, the scientists revealed a two-part system protecting the heart muscle’s power grid from disease-related damage.

(Researchers discover mitochondrial “circuit breaker” that protects heart from damage, NIH)

The researchers used a 3D bioimaging tool to reveal the architecture of the proteins diatoms use to absorb sunlight and power their photosynthesis.

(Scientists discover key factors in how some algae harness solar energy, National Science Foundation)

A proprietary 3D intensity-modulated radiation therapy treatment planning platform developed by the Elekta corporation.

(Elekta Xio, NCI Thesaurus)

A microprocessor specifically designed for processing 3D graphics data.

(Graphics Processing Unit, NCI Thesaurus)