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tesseract

noun
/ˈtɛ.səˌɹækt/

Etymology

From tessara- (“four-”) + Ancient Greek ἀκτίς (aktís, “ray”).

  1. derived from ἀκτίς — “ray”

Definitions

  1. The four-dimensional analogue of a cube

    The four-dimensional analogue of a cube; a 4D polytope bounded by eight cubes (analogously to the way a cube is bounded by six squares).

    • Hence the cube determined by these axes is the face of the tesseract which we now have before us.
    • […]then it would trace out a higher cube, or tesseract, and each of the six surrounding cubes, carried on in the same motion, would trace tesseracts also,[…].

  2. Any of various fictional mechanisms that explain extradimensional, superluminal, or time…

    Any of various fictional mechanisms that explain extradimensional, superluminal, or time travel outside the geometry of the physical universe.

    • "I shall just sit down for a moment and pop on my boots and then I'll be on my way. Speaking of ways, pet, by the way, there is such a thing as a tesseract."
    • When the Tesseract's energy levels spiked, Selvig proved unable to stop it and Loki arrived on Earth via a Tesseract-created portal.
    • Cooper sees his younger self due to the tesseract in Interstellar.

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Derived

tesseractic

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for tesseract. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA