four-dimensional

adjective

: relating to or having four dimensions
four-dimensional space-time continuum
especially : consisting of or relating to elements requiring four coordinates to determine them

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The four-dimensional Kakeya conjecture remains open, with a tower of four-dimensional conjectures above it as well. Joseph Howlett, Quanta Magazine, 14 Mar. 2025 General relativity and the dark universe Developed in 1915, general relativity suggests that gravity arises because bodies with mass cause the fabric of spacetime (the four-dimensional unification of space and time) to warp. Robert Lea, Space.com, 10 Mar. 2025 That would mean that experimental observations would depend on the orientation of the experiment in space-time (the four-dimensional unification of space and time). Robert Lea, Space.com, 21 Feb. 2025 Compared with such flat characters, Linda feels almost four-dimensional — a role that virtually flop-sweats off the screen, all but shaking your seat with her anxiety, the way premium theaters do with their chair-throttling 4DX screenings. Peter Debruge, Variety, 24 Jan. 2025 The Unraveling of Space-Time All topics (opens a new tab) t was already a mind-bending shift, last century, to go from Isaac Newton’s absolute space and universal time to Albert Einstein’s four-dimensional space-time, which is dynamic, flexible, sensitive to the touch. Amanda Gefter, Quanta Magazine, 25 Sep. 2024 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 Similarly, in the AdS/CFT correspondence, the four-dimensional CFT encodes everything about the five-dimensional AdS space it is associated with. Adam Becker, Scientific American, 1 Feb. 2022 One of the pieces on display is a constantly moving, three-dimensional shadow of a four-dimensional object. Michelle Tchea, Travel + Leisure, 1 June 2024

Word History

First Known Use

1880, in the meaning defined above

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The first known use of four-dimensional was in 1880

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“Four-dimensional.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/four-dimensional. Accessed 24 Mar. 2025.

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