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fifth dimension

American  

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

By this point in the Oscar season, I’ve entered a fifth dimension and, trust me, the pit of my fears is far greater than the summit of my knowledge.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 6, 2020

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

“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

Yes, the fifth dimension, and eternity," said Tode, "where time and space reel into functionlessness.

From Astounding Stories of Super-Science, May, 1930 by Bates, Harry