tesseract

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Dungeonaday. com also describes the surrounding area (filled with intriguing ruins), the nearby town of Brindenford (which is far more involved in the goings-on than it first appears), side trips to a mysterious island and an extradimensional tesseract, and forays into strange other planes.

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  • He took her home to Tamerlane, a huge house on the Sound that unfolded like a tesseract, disclosing rooms where none could logically be, and there Beatrice learned to spend his money. —  F ;SF - vol 089 issue 02 - August 1995
  • "Do you mean that however you figure it, the tesseract is beyond your power That's what they mean," Metria said. —  Cube Route
  • Just as a magus must forge his own ritual tools, Hinton urged readers to build the models that enable lowly 3-space entities to visualize a 4-space tesseract or hypercube. —  F ;SF; - vol 100 issue 01 - January 2001
  • The tesseract, or “hypercube,” is the most accessible four-dimensional object, so it's worth trying to understand. —  StrangeHorizons,September2002
  • The next step is to drag the cube in a fourth direction, perpendicular to all edges of the cube, resulting in a tesseract or “hypercube.” The last step, as usual, is difficult to imagine because it requires the fourth dimension. —  StrangeHorizons,September2002
 

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  1. Greek tessera, neuter pl. of tesseres, four; see tessera + aktīs, ray of light; see actino-.
 

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