tesseract

Betekenis (Engels)

1. 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).
2. Any of various fictional mechanisms that explain extradimensional, superluminal, or time travel outside the geometry of the physical universe.

Sinonieme

hypercube

8-cell

octachoron

Vertalings

tesseract

Tesserakt

hipercubo

tesseract

tesserato

dört boyutlu küp

Etimologie (Engels)

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