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Definition of Four-dimensional
1. Adjective. Involving or relating to the fourth dimension or time.
Definition of Four-dimensional
1. Adjective. (algebraic geometry) Having four dimensions; being measurable along four mutually perpendicular axes. ¹
2. Adjective. (physics) Relating to the four dimensions of space-time (three spatial dimensions with the addition of time as the fourth) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Four-dimensional
Literary usage of Four-dimensional
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Relativity: The Special and General Theory by Albert Einstein (1921)
"And yet there is no more common-place statement than that the world in which we
live is a four-dimensional space-time continuum. ..."
2. The Monist by Hegeler Institute (1908)
"We know by a priori considerations according to the principle of our construction
that the boundaries of a four-dimensional body must be solids, ie, ..."
3. Unicorns by James Huneker (1917)
"CHAPTER XVIII FOUR DIMENSIONAL VISTAS HAMLET, sometime Prince of Denmark, warned
his friend that there were more things in heaven and earth than dreamed of ..."
4. The New Idealism by May Sinclair (1922)
"Every four-dimensional figure will include figures of the third second and ...
Consequently any four-dimensional figure invading three- dimensional space ..."
5. Lectures on the Philosophy of Mathematics by James Byrnie Shaw (1918)
"If space is really four-dimensional, how could we ascertain the fact ? and what
... Not by motion clearly could we find four- dimensional point-space, ..."
6. Yang-Mills, Kaluza-Klein, and the Einstein Program by Robert Hermann (1978)
"THE “MAGNETIC CHARGE” IN four-dimensional NOTATION In the Maxwell equations (3.1),
let us simplify so that UC1 Only B and H remain independent, ..."
7. An Introduction to Electrodynamics from the Standpoint of the Electron Theory by Leigh Page (1922)
"four-dimensional representation. The Lorentz.Einstein transformations can be
represented very simply by a rotation in a four.dimensional manifold. ..."
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