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tesseract

[ tes-uh-rakt ]

noun

  1. the generalization of a cube to four dimensions.


tesseract

/ ³Ùĕ²õ′ə-°ùă°ì³Ù′ /

  1. A four-dimensional hypercube, having sixteen corners.
  2. See more at hypercube
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of tesseract1

1885–90; < Greek ³Ùé²õ²õ±ð°ù ( es ) four + ²¹°ì³Ùí²õ ray
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If you asked me to draw a map of Raccoon City after watching this movie, it would look like a tesseract.

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There are no crash courses in tesseract physics or Asgardian politics.

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Mr. Kelly didn’t have the luxury of a DeLorean car from “Back to the Future” or a tesseract from “A Wrinkle in Time,” so he did the next best thing.

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As a square becomes a cube by adding the third dimension, a cube becomes a hypercube — a tesseract — by adding a fourth.

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There are also giraffe sculptures, a defunct sensory deprivation tank, a four-dimensional hypercube called a tesseract and a fake particle accelerator made of gold-painted junk.

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