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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 of different religions
• 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

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