tesseract
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- noun
- /ˈtɛsəˌrækt/
- Specialized
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teseracto
- It was at this time that I corresponded and worked with Dr. J.B. Rhine of Duke University while he was working on his thesis regarding what has become known as the tesseract.
- tesseract dimensional
- tesseract suite
- tesseract room
Examples
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In short, the tesseract is a mathematical shadow of a fourth-dimensional cube.
Blog text (21) -
Creating a tesseract (a 4-dimensional object) by adding the component of time, which is thought of by most as a dimension itself, would be highly unlikely to be possible.
Blog text (26) -
Just that there really is such a thing as a tesseract.
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The Tesseract belongs on Asgard.
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Merlin and Mordu create the tesseract map to find the lost Books of Magic.
Blog text (8) -
We talked of space, galaxies, tesseracts, time travel, rockets to the Moon, and all the dreams that were yet to be.
Fiction book (1998) -
In Chapter 13, "The Foolish and the Weak," Mrs. Whatsit, Mrs. Who, and Mrs. Which appear on the planet of Aunt Beastie where Meg is recovering from a near-fatal tesseract.
Academic text (1991) -
He took her home to Tamerlane, a huge house on the Sound that unfolded like a tesseract, disclosing rooms where none could logically be, and there Beatrice learned to spend his money.
Fiction book (1995) -
A tesseract is often described as a four-dimensional analogue of a cube in geometry.
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The mathematician explained that understanding a tesseract requires visualizing four-dimensional space.
Synonyms
A shape like a cube but in four or more dimensions
Surface Forms
Morphology
tesseract = tesser + act
Formed from classical combining elements (e.g. 'tesser-' = four) that are not productive or familiar to average learners, so the four-dimensional geometric meaning cannot be reliably inferred from the parts.
Etymology
Tesseract was made up by mathematicians from the Greek root tesser- meaning 'four'. Think of a cube with one more direction, and that's why a tesseract is a 'four-dimensional' cube.