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  • noun mathematics A vector space whose basis of real numbers has three vectors

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Examples

  • I utilized the initial three-space option of the Ubar's Scribe's Spearman.

    Cinnamon Roll 2010

  • ê are unit vectors in three-space, and then shows that these Quantum Mechanical expectation values violate Bell's Inequality.

    Bell's Theorem Shimony, Abner 2009

  • We are familiar with the basics, the concept of free fall, space-time curvature, invariant frames and so forth, and understand the possibility of an extra three-space in the structure.

    Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Quantum Mechanics, But Were Afraid to Ask Sean 2008

  • To illustrate with Euclidean three-space, its associated projective space is the unit sphere with antipodal points identified, forming a two-dimensional manifold.

    Algebra Pratt, Vaughan 2007

  • This state propagates not in ordinary three-space but in configuration space, where each point specifies the configuration of both particles.

    Action at a Distance in Quantum Mechanics Berkovitz, Joseph 2007

  • That the guiding wave, in the general case, propagates not in ordinary three-space but in a multidimensional-configuration space is the origin of the notorious ˜nonlocality™ of quantum mechanics.

    Bohmian Mechanics Goldstein, Sheldon 2006

  • If the mansion stood on a hypersphere slightly greater in diameter than the mansion grounds, a person could move from any point to any other with what, in three-space, would seem to be right angles.

    Orphans of Chaos 2005

  • Rather than being the shortcut I had hoped, I encountered more time-intervals per second than in three-space.

    Orphans of Chaos 2005

  • The nearest had already dipped an arc into three-space, and was sending out concentric waves of energy, whose cross-section manifested themselves in our continuum, as music.

    Orphans of Chaos 2005

  • Distances were, in effect, greater between two points here than in three-space.

    Orphans of Chaos 2005

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