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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
n. 1 (context mathematics English) The four-dimensional analogue of a cube; a 4D polytope bounded by eight cubes (in the same way a cube is bounded by six squares). 2 (context science fiction English) Any of various fictional mechanisms that explain extradimensional, superluminal, or time travel travel outside the geometry of the physical universe.
Wikipedia
In geometry, the tesseract is the four-dimensional analog of the cube; the tesseract is to the cube as the cube is to the square. Just as the surface of the cube consists of six square faces, the hypersurface of the tesseract consists of eight cubical cells. The tesseract is one of the six convex regular 4-polytopes.
The tesseract is also called an 8-cell, C, (regular) octachoron, octahedroid, cubic prism, and tetracube (although this last term can also mean a polycube made of four cubes). It is the four-dimensional hypercube, or 4-cube as a part of the dimensional family of hypercubes or "measure polytopes".
According to the Oxford English Dictionary, the word tesseract was coined and first used in 1888 by Charles Howard Hinton in his book A New Era of Thought, from the Greek (téssereis aktines, "four rays"), referring to the four lines from each vertex to other vertices. In this publication, as well as some of Hinton's later work, the word was occasionally spelled "tessaract".
Tesseract is an optical character recognition engine for various operating systems. It is free software, released under the Apache License, Version 2.0, and development has been sponsored by Google since 2006.Announcing Tesseract OCR - The official Google blog Tesseract is considered one of the most accurate open source OCR engines currently available.
A tesseract is a four-dimensional analog of the cube.
Tesseract may also refer to:
Tesseract (often stylized as TesseracT) is a British progressive metal band from Milton Keynes, England. The band, formed in 2003, consists of Daniel Tompkins (lead vocals), Alec "Acle" Kahney (lead guitar & producer), James Monteith (rhythm guitar), Amos Williams (bass, backing vocals), and Jay Postones (drums, percussion). The band is currently signed to Kscope. They are credited as one of the bands to pioneer the djent movement in progressive metal. As of 2015, Tesseract have released three studio albums: One, Altered State, and Polaris, as well as a live album, Odyssey/Scala, and the extended plays Concealing Fate and Perspective.
Usage examples of "tesseract".
While we repaired the Gorn shuttle, we took turns watching Tesseract Fortress and listening to its communicator chatter.
If your alien machine had really wanted to help, it would have transported my captain out of the explosion so we could plan a new way to infiltrate and destroy Tesseract Fortress.
We needed to call it something, and Tesseract seemed as good a name as any.
The Gorn shuttle sailed out over broad-leaved treetops that sparkled with sunlit pools of rain, heading for the perimeter walls of Tesseract Fortress.
Sulu possessed to guide the Gorn shuttle into a slow, low-altitude circle above Tesseract Fortress with its outward pointing rows of projectile weapons.
Gorn portal hub grew louder as they approached the heart of Tesseract Fortress.
The powerful heartbeat of the Gorn portal hub had risen to a rhythmic thunder as they descended deeper into the pit below Tesseract Fortress.
Of course the good folk of Tesseract World insisted on feting them all with a great party, and they insisted on learning how this marvelous magic square dance was performed.
Then they became instructors, each taking a Tesseract partner to guide through it, forming two squares.
The last time Sulu had walked down this twisting ribbon of passageway, it had been filled with a floating mist of melted ice and he had been filled with relief at having just escaped Tesseract Fortress.
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.
New Guinea, an African figurine, a baffling shaped painting in the form of a tesseract, and three magnificent little crystallines.
You wandered through the cubes of a tesseract, trying to work out the geometry of its intrusion into three-space.
Howard Hinton which enables lowly three-space entities to visualize a four-space tesseract or hypercube.
Hinton urged readers to build the models that enable lowly 3-space entities to visualize a 4-space tesseract or hypercube.