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Noun

1. 1
   Alternative spelling of tesseract. alt-of, alternative

   "The tessaract, the figure whose boundaries are cubes, I knew by heart."

Synonyms

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4-cube8 cell8-cellfour dimensionalfour-dimensional hypercubehypercube

Example

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"The tessaract, the figure whose boundaries are cubes, I knew by heart."

Etymology

From tessara- (“four-”) + Ancient Greek ἀκτίς (aktís, “ray”). Coined by British mathematician Charles Howard Hinton in 1888.

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