tesseract.
The four-dimensional analogue of a cube; a 4D polytope bounded by eight cubes (analogously to the way a cube is bounded by six squares).
Meaning & usage
The four-dimensional analogue of a cube; a 4D polytope bounded by eight cubes (analogously to the way a cube is bounded by six squares).
Any of various fictional mechanisms that explain extradimensional, superluminal, or time travel outside the geometry of the physical universe.
Where this word comes from
Word created by Charles Howard Hinton, in his book A New Era of Thought published in 1888, from Ancient Greek tessara- (“four-”) + Ancient Greek ἀκτίς (aktís, “ray”).
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