tesseract

Definitions

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.

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Examples

“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,[…].”

“"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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