What does DIM stand for in Visual Basic and BASIC?

Question

What does DIM stand for in Visual Basic?

Answer 1

Back in the day DIM reserved memory for the array and when memory was limited you had to be careful how you used it. I once wrote (in 1981) a BASIC program on TRS-80 Model III with 48Kb RAM. It wouldn't run on a similar machine with 16Kb RAM until I decreased the array size by changing the DIM statement