tesseract
IPA: tˈɛsɝækt
noun
- (mathematics, geometry) 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).
- (science fiction) Any of various fictional mechanisms that explain extradimensional, superluminal, or time travel outside the geometry of the physical universe.
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Examples of "tesseract" in Sentences
- Speaking of ways, by the way, there is such a thing as a tesseract.
- Log in to Reply tesseract (UID#4004) on October 29th, 2009 at 3: 34 pm
- Thus the "four-dimensional cube" receives a name, the "tesseract," and is said to be bounded by cubes.
- Julian: Your desire for a dinghy is merely the tesseract shadow cast by the four-dimensional dinghy itself
- In your spacetime version, when you reach this step, you need to grab the center of the structure and do the tesseract twist, wrench it round by about half a rad.
- It contains four-dimensional equivalents to our familiar three-dimensional geometrical objects-a four-dimensional cube, for example, known as a tesseract, that has sixteen corners and thirty-two edges to a cube's eight and twelve.
- For instance, the projection of a cube may be made on to a plane, or even on to a line; similarly, a "tesseract" (the name given to the fourth-dimension figure traced by the motion of a cube) may be projected on three-dimension space, or even a plane.
- Despite the fact that various advances made since 1962 in the field of physics make the scientific concept L’Engle uses to facilitate the novel’s events, called a tesseract, virtually impossible, A Wrinkle in Time remains a popular novel among young adults as well as older readers even today.
- There's a theory of extradimensionality that holds that there are parallel universes as little as a mere .1 mm away from our own, but owing to the dimensions of our own universe (that is to say, it is folded over on itself like a sort of endless ribbon - think "tesseract" from "A Wrinkle in Time"), we are billions of light-years away from the next nearest universe, as the crow flies.
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