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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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“It’s like I’m already so much more confident. I feel like a completely different person. I’m seeing a fifth dimension of how wrestling can change me.”

From Washington Post • Nov. 1, 2021

That’s why a viewer’s first foray into Rod Serling’s fifth dimension should begin with one of the series’ equally eerie but underrated masterpieces.

From Slate • Dec. 31, 2019

“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

It had jerked the globe in each of five directions, each at right angles to all the others, and had released it when started in the fifth dimension.

From Astounding Stories of Super-Science January 1931 by Various