Dimness is a measure of an object's luminosity. Dim or dimness may refer to:

Computing

  • .dim, a disk image
  • A keyword in most versions of the BASIC programming language

Chemistry, biology, and medicine

  • 3,3'-Diindolylmethane, an anticarcinogen compound

Organizations

  • Corporación Deportiva Independiente Medellín, a Colombian football club
  • Deportivo Independiente Miraflores, a football club based in the city of Miraflores, Lima, Perú
  • Dialogue Interreligieux Monastique, the European arm of the DIMMID, a movement promoting interfaith dialogue between monastic communities
  • Dirección de Inteligencia Militar, the military intelligence agency of Venezuela

People

  • Nickname of John Wooldridge (1919–1958), British film music composer and Second World War bomber pilot

Places

  • Dim, Amur Oblast, a rural locality in Amur Oblast, Russia
  • Dim, Iran, a village in South Khorasan Province

Other uses

  • To dim, verb that means to lower the brightness of light
  • Dim, a European rhinoceros beetle in the 1998 Disney/Pixar animated film A Bug's Life
  • "DiM", a 1998 episode of Dexter's Laboratory
  • Dim (album), the fourth studio album by Japanese rock band The Gazette

The abbreviation dim may refer to:

  • Dimension, a measure of how many parameters is sufficient to describe an object in mathematics
  • Dimension (vector space), the number of vectors needed to describe the basis in a vector space, in linear algebra
  • Diminished triad, a dissonant chord with a minor third and diminished fifth to the root in music theory
  • Diminuendo, a word indicating changes of dynamics in music
  • Diminutive, a formation of a word

See also

  • Din (disambiguation)
  • Global dimming