tesseract
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of tesseract
1885–90; < Greek tésser ( es ) four + aktís ray
Example Sentences
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If you asked me to draw a map of Raccoon City after watching this movie, it would look like a tesseract.
From The Verge • Nov. 23, 2021
There are no crash courses in tesseract physics or Asgardian politics.
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 24, 2021
There are also giraffe sculptures, a defunct sensory deprivation tank, a four-dimensional hypercube called a tesseract and a fake particle accelerator made of gold-painted junk.
From The Guardian • Apr. 23, 2018
And the Murry parents—beautiful and smart microbiologist Kate and tesseract physicist Alex—made being scientists seem so cool.
From Time • Apr. 28, 2015
In such a case, we would have generated a four-dimensional hypercube, also called a tesseract.
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
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