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fifth dimension

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noun

Mathematics, Physics.
  1. a theoretical dimension beyond or in addition to a fourth dimension.


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We’re not hiking through some dreamtime rave cave in the fifth dimension.

From Washington Post • Oct. 3, 2022

“There is a fifth dimension beyond that which is known to man.”

From New York Times • Mar. 29, 2019

“The kind of writing that can be done. How far prose can be carried if anyone is serious enough and has luck. There is a fourth and fifth dimension that can be gotten.”

From The New Yorker • Jul. 29, 2015

Wormholes, black holes, the fifth dimension — what Thorne calls "the warped side of the universe" — play critical roles in the story of a last-ditch space-exploration mission to find a new home for humankind.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 21, 2014

About a second after leaving Earth he slowed his traveling speed down to the medium velocity of light by shifting from fifth dimension to fourth.

From Satan and the Comrades by Bennitt, Ralph

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