tesseract

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun

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.

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From tessara- (“four-”) + Ancient Greek ἀκτίς (aktís, “ray”).

four-dimensional hypercube 4-cube 8-cell octachoron tetracube

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