boundary

In Latin it is where we can find the etymological origin of the term dimension that now occupies us. Specifically, it is the result of the sum of three Latino components:
• The prefix “ad”, which means “towards”.
• The word “cautus”, which is synonymous with “careful”.
• The suffix “-ción”, which is used to indicate “cause and effect”.

Dimensioning is a concept with two main uses: on the one hand, it refers to the commentary or apostille that complements a text or that makes any clarification; on the other, it is the reference that indicates a certain level or measure within a flat.

If we focus on the first meaning, the dimensions are usually included in the margins of the writings with some type of call that allows the reader to know that they will find more information about the main contents. Suppose a test on American literature mention is made of Edgar Allan Poe as a reference. A note could explain the reason for such inclusion and mention the reasons that led to the choice of this writer to talk about American letters.

In the scripts of theater or film plays, the annotations provide information of interest to the actors and those responsible for the staging. Such annotations can mention how the characters should move, what their attitude is, what intonation to choose to pronounce the libretto, etc.

Of this type of annotations in texts, it is worth highlighting the following hallmarks:
• They must be written either in capital letters or in italics, in the case of those used in plays. In this way they can be clearly differentiated from the rest of the text.
• In the rest of literary documents, they are carried out using both the italics cited and elements such as brackets or parentheses.

Dimensioning is also used in everyday life as part of the oral language. A dialog with dimensions can be the following:

- Yesterday Mabel, the obese old woman who lives next door, visited me.
- I know who Mabel is: the statement on her physical condition was unnecessary.

Regarding the second meaning of the notion, the boundary is a kind of clarification that is made within a technical drawing to specify what is the measure of a certain property of some element. It is important that the dimension is easy to understand and does not mix with the lines of the plan or scheme.

In this case, we have to show that the dimensions can be grouped fundamentally into two sets: those of location, which come to determine the relationships that are established between the components that shape an object, or those of dimension, which come to record of values ​​such as distance, width or thickness, among other factors.

All this without forgetting that there are other dimensions such as chain, tabulated or combined.

No less important, is that the dimensions that are carried out in this type of documents or drawings are made up of elements such as symbols, the extension line, the dimension line, the note lines or the dimension figure.