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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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This apparent tension between doubt and faith may reinforce one of Serling’s most familiar and enigmatic lines: “There is a fifth dimension, beyond that which is known to man.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 15, 2026

“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

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

From New York Times ● Mar. 29, 2019

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

Tom Parker, exhausted from his efforts in that other plane and with the very foundations of his being wrenched by the passage through the fifth dimension, was unable to rise.

From Wanderer of Infinity by Harl Vincent

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