"dimensionless" meaning in English

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          "text": "Extended objects may be separated by dimensionless points; but dimensionless points cannot be separated, but by some real distance, or something really extended.",
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          "text": "1930, E. E. Smith, Skylark Three, Fantasy Press, 1948, Chapter 3,\nThey saw the utter, absolute darkness of the complete absence of all light; and upon that indescribable blackness they beheld superimposed the almost unbearable brilliance of enormous suns concentrated into mathematical points, dimensionless."
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          "text": "He did not look once again toward the dark house. […] He simply went quietly as if that were his natural manner of moving and passed around the now dimensionless bulk of the house, toward the rear, where the kitchen would be.",
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