tesseract
/ˈtɛ.səˌrækt/
构词拆解
词源说明
Word created by Charles Howard Hinton, in his book A New Era of Thought published in 1888, from Ancient Greek tessara- (“four-”) + Ancient Greek ἀκτίς (aktís, “ray”).
释义
名词noun
- 1(mathematics, geometry) 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(science fiction) Any of various fictional mechanisms that explain extradimensional, superluminal, or