fourth dimension
noun
1
: a dimension in addition to length, breadth, and depth
specifically
: a coordinate in addition to three rectangular coordinates especially when interpreted as the time coordinate in a space-time continuum
2
: something outside the range of ordinary experience
fourth-dimensional
adjective
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The Well This is what the fourth dimension looks like
Left–Right, Back–Forth, Up–Down.
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Big Think, 24 June 2024
Greene offers up a garden hose as a good example of what the fourth dimension looks like.
—Tim Newcomb, Popular Mechanics, 30 Jan. 2023
This doesn't mean that five connected neurons occupy some mysterious fourth dimension.
—Neuroskeptic, Discover Magazine, 18 July 2017
Newton didn’t believe objects affected space, the American Museum of Natural History writes, but Einstein did, and had even distinguished a fourth dimension known as space-time in his 1905 special theory of relativity.
—USA TODAY, 31 May 2023
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Big Think, 24 June 2024
Greene offers up a garden hose as a good example of what the fourth dimension looks like.
—Tim Newcomb, Popular Mechanics, 30 Jan. 2023
This doesn't mean that five connected neurons occupy some mysterious fourth dimension.
—Neuroskeptic, Discover Magazine, 18 July 2017
Newton didn’t believe objects affected space, the American Museum of Natural History writes, but Einstein did, and had even distinguished a fourth dimension known as space-time in his 1905 special theory of relativity.
—USA TODAY, 31 May 2023
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“Fourth dimension.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/fourth%20dimension. Accessed 22 Dec. 2024.
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