/*----------------    FILE HEADER  ------------------------------------------

This file is part of deegree.
Copyright (C) 2001 by:
EXSE, Department of Geography, University of Bonn
http://www.giub.uni-bonn.de/exse/
lat/lon GmbH
http://www.lat-lon.de

It has been implemented within SEAGIS - An OpenSource implementation of OpenGIS specification
(C) 2001, Institut de Recherche pour le D�veloppement (http://sourceforge.net/projects/seagis/)
SEAGIS Contacts:  Surveillance de l'Environnement Assist�e par Satellite
                  Institut de Recherche pour le D�veloppement / US-Espace
                  mailto:seasnet@teledetection.fr


This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
modify it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public
License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either
version 2.1 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

This library is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the GNU
Lesser General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public
License along with this library; if not, write to the Free Software
Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA  02111-1307  USA

Contact:

Andreas Poth
lat/lon GmbH
Aennchenstr. 19
53115 Bonn
Germany
E-Mail: poth@lat-lon.de

Klaus Greve
Department of Geography
University of Bonn
Meckenheimer Allee 166
53115 Bonn
Germany
E-Mail: klaus.greve@uni-bonn.de

                 
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package org.deegree.model.csct.pt;


/**
 * Interface for dimensioned object.
 * Objects implementing this interface may have an arbitrary number of dimensions.
 * It is generally not possible to determine their dimension only by their type.
 * For example a {@link CoordinatePoint} may very well be one-dimensional (e.g.
 * a height), two-dimensional (e.g. a geographic coordinate), three-dimensional,
 * etc. The actual number of dimension can be queried by {@link #getDimension}.
 *
 * @version 1.0
 * @author Martin Desruisseaux
 */
public interface Dimensioned
{
    /**
     * Returns the number of dimensions.
     */
    public abstract int getDimension();
}