Crossword clues for hypercube
hypercube
The Collaborative International Dictionary
hypercube \hypercube\ n. A mathematical object existing in more than three dimensions, analogous to the cube in that each two-dimensional facet of the surface is a square; a generalization of a cube in more than three dimensions.
Wiktionary
n. 1 (context geometry English) A geometric figure in four or more dimensions, which is analogous to a cube in three dimensions. Specifically, the ''n''-dimensional equivalent of a cube for any non-negative integer ''n''. 2 (context geometry English) Such a figure in four dimensions; a tesseract. 3 (context computing English) A computer architecture in which each processor is connected to ''n'' others based on analogy to a hypercube of ''n'' dimensions.
Usage examples of "hypercube".
On the floor beneath the suspended hypercube, and the crucified Christ, is a checkerboard pattern -- except directly below the hypercube.
Comparing this simple cross with the reality of the hypercube which casts the shadow, we contemplate that our world is perhaps a pallid shadow of a higher reality, an implicit mystical message.
Doing a similar projection to the hypercube leads to the three-dimensional picture below.
Do the same with the hypercube, and you should have a pretty good three-dimensional image of a cube inside another, with corners connected by lines.
However, this is only a picture of the hypercube, projected into our space using perspective.
To get an even better feel for the hypercube, play with this moving stereographic image.
Aleck said, reaching forward and tapping at a tesser-act cross shape, a hypercube represented in three dimensional space.
An enormous tesseract, an unraveled hypercube, floated above it, beneath skies human beings could never before have known.
Looking at it, she understood the hypercube cross better than she ever had before.
The box was evidently one three-dimensional facet of a hypercube, extending into folded space.
There were hypercubes one disassembled to convert into Klein bottles, and Gordian knots only Cassandra could untie.