Unlike the familiar three of length, breadth and height, these extra dimensions are curled up so tightly that they elude detection (though scientists are trying to prise them open in particle accelerators like the Large Hadron Collider near Geneva).

ECONOMIST: Cosmology

And from this weathering we get our height and depth, our texture and dimensions, our facets of character and being.

BBC: Missing pieces in Utah

The outside dimensions of the theatre were extrapolated from one of the panoramas, the height and stage layout from the contract for the later Fortune theatre, decoration from the latest research on Elizabethan pigments and taste.

ECONOMIST: SHAKESPEARE��S PLAYHOUSE