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Definition of Tesseract
1. Noun. The four-dimensional analogue of a cube.
Definition of Tesseract
1. Noun. (mathematics) The four-dimensional analogue/analog of a cube; a four-dimensional content (which see) bounded by eight cubes (in the same way as a cube is a volume bounded by six squares and a square is an area by four line segments). ¹
2. Noun. (figuratively) A wrinkle in time that makes time travel possible. (Used by Madeleine L'Engle in her science-fiction novel, ''A Wrinkle in Time''.) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Tesseract
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Tesseract
Literary usage of Tesseract
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Easy Lessons in Einstein: A Discussion of the More Intelligible Features of by Edwin Emery Slosson (1920)
"Every line except this is on the outside of the four-dimensional figure.
THE tesseract A four-dimensional cube-like solid if transparent and looked at ..."
2. The Fourth Dimension Simply Explained: A Collection of Essays Selected from by Henry Parker Manning (1910)
"In this manner it is established that a tesseract is completely inclosed by eight
similar tesseracts; and because the faces of a ..."
3. Journal of the American Chemical Society by American Chemical Society (1879)
"The topological figure is the cell first three- dimensional reduction of the
tesseract which has 16 vertices representing the 16 octahedral stereoisomers. ..."
4. Architecture and Democracy by Claude Fayette Bragdon (1918)
"In that case we would have a rendering of the tesseract as shown in B, ...
These two projections of the tesseract upon plane space are not the only ones ..."
5. Clairvoyance by Charles Webster Leadbeater (1903)
"rate bear witness that the tesseract or fourth-dimensional cube which he describes
is a reality, for it is quite a familiar figure upon the astral plane. ..."
6. Easy Lessons in Einstein: A Discussion of the More Intelligible Features of by Edwin Emery Slosson (1920)
"It is called the " tesseract," and it is bounded by eight cubes just as the cube
is bounded by six ... The tesseract has 24 square faces, 32 edges and 16 ..."
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