Associations to the word «Tesseract»

Wiktionary

TESSERACT, noun. (mathematics) 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).
TESSERACT, noun. (science fiction) Any of various fictional mechanisms that explain extradimensional, superluminal, or time travel outside the geometry of the physical universe.

Dictionary definition

TESSERACT, noun. The four-dimensional analogue of a cube.

Wise words

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats