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tesseracted

tesseracted is the simple past and past participle of tesseract.

Meaning of tesseract

Noun

tesseract (plural tesseracts)

  1. 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
  2. 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

Adjective

tesseracted (not comparable)

  1. (uncommon) Raised to the fourth power.
    Synonyms:
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Synonyms of tesseracted

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Questions about tesseracted

What does tesseracted mean?
Tesseracted means raised to the fourth power.
What is tesseracted the simple past and past participle of?
Tesseracted is the simple past and past participle of tesseract.
What part of speech is tesseracted?
Tesseracted is an adjective.

Words near tesseracted in the dictionary

  1. Tessema
  2. Tessemas
  3. tessera
  4. tessera-
  5. tesseract
  6. tesseracted
  7. tesseractic
  8. tesseracts
  9. tesseradecade
  10. tesseradecades
  11. tesserae

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