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051 package org.deegree.model.csct.pt;
052
053
054 /**
055 * Interface for dimensioned object.
056 * Objects implementing this interface may have an arbitrary number of dimensions.
057 * It is generally not possible to determine their dimension only by their type.
058 * For example a {@link CoordinatePoint} may very well be one-dimensional (e.g.
059 * a height), two-dimensional (e.g. a geographic coordinate), three-dimensional,
060 * etc. The actual number of dimension can be queried by {@link #getDimension}.
061 *
062 * @version 1.0
063 * @author Martin Desruisseaux
064 */
065 public interface Dimensioned
066 {
067 /**
068 * Returns the number of dimensions.
069 */
070 public abstract int getDimension();
071 }