tessaract
tessaract is the alternative spelling of tesseract.
Meaning of tesseract
Noun
tesseract (plural tesseracts)
- 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).
- Hence the cube determined by these axes is the face of the tesseract which we now have before us.1906, Charles Howard Hinton, The Fourth Dimension, S. Sonnenschein & Company, page 239
- Synonyms:
- four-dimensional hypercube, 4-cube, 8-cell, octachoron, tetracube
- Any of various fictional mechanisms that explain extradimensional, superluminal, or time travel outside the geometry of the physical universe.
- "I shall just sit down for a moment and pop on my boots and then I'll be on my way. Speaking of ways, pet, by the way, there is such a thing as a tesseract."1962, Madeleine L'Engle, A Wrinkle in Time, published 2019, unnumbered page
Forms of tessaract
| plural | tessaracts |
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Origin of tessaract
From tessara- (“four-”) + Ancient Greek ἀκτίς (aktís, “ray”). Coined by British mathematician Charles Howard Hinton in 1888.
Questions about tessaract
- What is tessaract the alternative spelling of?
- Tessaract is the alternative spelling of tesseract.
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