hyperfield

Noun

hyperfield (plural hyperfields)

1. A field in which the operation of addition is multivalued
2. A region of the visual field that maps to multiple hypercolumns.
   • In this model it is assumed that each hemiretina consists of thousands of hemicircular regions called 'hyperfields', arranged in a sunflower seed growth pattern mosaic, which map topographically onto a corresponding square mosaic of regions in the striate cortex called hypercolumns.1985, David Rose, Vernon G. Dobson, Models of the Visual Cortex, page 185
   • For example, features such as bars of light of different lengths, widths, intensities, and orientations, moving with different speeds, tend to activate single cells of a hypercolumn whenever the hyperfield is exposed to the corresponding feature.2012, Carl Mitcham, Alois Huning, Philosophy and Technology II, →ISBN
3. One of various fictional fields in which special physical properties are supported.
   • It would take a phenomenally advanced technology to create that; but then, as we've all suddenly been granted superhuman powers, quantum hyperfield theory is the least of our problems.2002 -, Peter F. Hamilton -, Misspent Youth
   • The hyperfield itself could not be moved and remained there on the lava field suspended in the suds of the continuum at the exact point where the arc had entered the inertial frame of the Earth. Unless the titanohematite brain returned to that precise point where the connection to 5-space waited...2014, A.A. Attanasio, Arc of the Dream: Radix Tetrad, →ISBN