How to Use fourth dimension in a Sentence

fourth dimension

noun
  • In the same way, a fourth dimension gives a knot a lot more leeway — too much, in fact.
    Quanta Magazine, 18 May 2022
  • An example from a string theorist gives a view of what a fourth dimension could be.
    Tim Newcomb, Popular Mechanics, 30 Jan. 2023
  • The game is a physics engine operating in 4D space, allowing you to play with objects and explore the fourth dimension.
    Avery Thompson, Popular Mechanics, 22 June 2017
  • Einstein unified the three dimensions of space with the fourth dimension of time, and this spacetime will warp and stretch in the presence of a mass or equivalent distortion.
    Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 20 Nov. 2020
  • This notion that time is just a fourth dimension is highly misleading.
    Quanta Magazine, 16 May 2017
  • By 2014, plenty of people had worked on the game theory of cooperation, the authors wrote, but that canon tends to ignore the fourth dimension—time.
    Adam Rogers, Wired, 1 July 2021
  • What would a fourth dimension — somehow perpendicular to our three — look like?
    Quanta Magazine, 13 Sep. 2021
  • And many artists, like Pablo Picasso and Marcel Duchamp, incorporated ideas of the fourth dimension into their work.
    Quanta Magazine, 13 Sep. 2021
  • There’s no need to assume that the fourth dimension must already exist out into infinity.
    Zeeya Merali, Discover Magazine, 29 Apr. 2015
  • Not a physical entity, the fourth dimension could be felt as a type of transcendence, transmitted by the artist to a particular viewer through art.
    William C. Agee, WSJ, 25 Dec. 2020
  • Perhaps as a consequence, in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, the public became infatuated with the fourth dimension.
    Quanta Magazine, 13 Sep. 2021
  • The fourth dimension is about China’s economy, a vision for how to develop a Chinese economy that is far more self-reliant but still engaged in the global economy.
    Mary Hui, Quartz, 19 Jan. 2022
  • Matthew Salesses considers the impact of his wife’s passing, and other factors, on his experience as a human passing through the fourth dimension.
    Sari Botton, Longreads, 13 May 2020
  • Increasingly, though, there’s a fourth dimension: how much longer a destination or experience, as advertised, will be around for a tourist to enjoy.
    John Briley, Washington Post, 18 July 2019
  • Though it was published a full decade before Einstein's theory of relativity, the book treats time as a fourth dimension, independent of the three dimensions of space, similar to how it is conceived in Einstein’s physics.
    Quanta Magazine, 5 May 2020
  • That fourth dimension of human interaction and imprint is something Fendi rightly observes is in rich supply in Miami.
    Luke Leitch, Vogue, 29 Nov. 2022
  • Chernow creates an interesting effect, working in a kind of fourth dimension: The reader’s mind keeps jumping from Grant’s 19th century to Trump’s 21st, making uneasy connections.
    Lance Morrow, National Review, 2 Nov. 2017
  • The innovation also adds a fourth dimension: emotional insight.
    Tara McNamara, Variety, 3 Mar. 2022
  • Now imagine turning all current static tests into dynamic tests with capabilities for stress testing by adding a fourth dimension to diagnostics—time.
    WSJ, 24 June 2018
  • Thus, Ellis’ model of time retains enough of the block universe to match with relativity’s predictions, but without needing to take Einstein’s drastic last step of assuming that the fourth dimension is solidified into the infinite future.
    Zeeya Merali, Discover Magazine, 29 Apr. 2015
  • Physicists have struggled to understand how the time of quantum mechanics can be reconciled with the notion of time as the fourth dimension in Einstein’s general theory of relativity, the current description of gravity.
    Quanta Magazine, 31 Aug. 2021

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