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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

“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

Science fiction is not lying when it calls love the fifth dimension or the Fifth Element.

From Slate • Nov. 18, 2014

With its talk of wormholes, black holes, the fifth dimension and the puzzles of space and time, "Interstellar's" script makes full use of the services of one of its executive producers, theoretical physicist Kip Thorne.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 4, 2014

The noise of the little gun was thunderous and snarling in the laboratory, but in the world of the fifth dimension there was no sound at all.

From Astounding Stories of Super-Science January 1931 by Various

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