n. The four-dimensional analogue of a cube; a 4D polytype bounded by eight cubes (in the same way a cube is bounded by six squares).
n. Any of various fictional mechanisms that explain extradimensional, superluminal, or time travel outside the geometry of the physical universe.
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n. the four-dimensional analogue of a cube
Word Usage
"It contains four-dimensional equivalents to our familiar three-dimensional geometrical objects-a four-dimensional cube, for example, known as a tesseract, that has sixteen corners and thirty-two edges to a cube's eight and twelve."