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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

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 Vincent, Harl

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