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tesseract.

Noun
Sci-FiSettingTechnical
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The four-dimensional counterpart of a cube, bounded by eight cubical cells.

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  • a tesseract projection
  • rotate a tesseract

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The console displayed a rotating projection of a tesseract.
She compared the tesseract with the ordinary cube to explain the extra dimension.

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Primary category: sci-fi. Forms: Singular tesseract; plural tesseracts. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings.

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