tesseract

noun

tes·​ser·​act ˈte-sə-ˌrakt How to pronounce tesseract (audio)
: the four-dimensional analogue of a cube

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Whiteboards covered in notes and math equations fill the only corner of the office currently in use, while 3D printers from Ragsdale’s home produce prototypes, including the company’s tesseract logo. Mackenzie Sigalos, CNBC, 16 Jan. 2025 The team behind the new work calls the scheme a tesseract code, after the four-dimensional cube, as the connections among its qubits share a similar layout as the corners of a tesseract. John Timmer, Ars Technica, 10 Sep. 2024 Using the tesseract code and logical qubits, the error rate dropped to 0.11 percent, an improvement of 22-fold. John Timmer, Ars Technica, 10 Sep. 2024 The tesseract here has just three dimensions, which strikes me as a bit of a cop-out, really, represented by a cube of 64 dice in varying colors. Keith Law, Vulture, 22 Mar. 2024 As reported previously, the launching point for Loki S1 was that scene in Avengers: Endgame when a 2012 version of Loki snagged the tesseract containing the Space Stone and vanished through a portal. Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 31 July 2023 Remember: there is such a thing as a tesseract. Lizz Schumer, Good Housekeeping, 28 Oct. 2022 Even when dastardly Matt Damon selfishly steals a ship to escape a hopeless planet, McConaughey acts fast to preserve mankind’s last shred of hope, all while talking through a bookcase inside a massive tesseract constructed by future humans inside the singularity across different time periods! Ben Flanagan | Bflanagan@al.com, al, 25 Nov. 2021 There are no crash courses in tesseract physics or Asgardian politics. Los Angeles Times, 24 Oct. 2021

Word History

Etymology

Greek tessares four + aktis ray — more at actin-

First Known Use

1888, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of tesseract was in 1888

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“Tesseract.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/tesseract. Accessed 30 Jan. 2025.

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