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"dimension" vs "extent", "axis" vs "dimension" - when should I use which term?

I'm defining a small API involving both uni-dimensional and multi-dimensional data. In addition to representing the data itself, I also have function/methods/operators for creating a new multi-...
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Is there an idiom for specifying axes and dimensions of array(-like) parameters? [closed]

Many programming languages have functions which take a parameter which is a potentially-multi-dimensional array, where the number of axes and the dimension in each axis is not specified in code. This ...
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