tesseract

Significado (Inglês)

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.

Conceitos

hipercubo

tesseract

tesserato

Sinônimos

hypercube

8-cell

octachoron

Etimologia (Inglês)

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