Used in a Sentence

four-dimensional

Definitions, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for four-dimensional.

Editorial note

It's not particularly playable, but it is true four-dimensional space with four-dimensional spaceships zipping around.

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Quick take

(physics) Relating to the four dimensions of space-time (three spatial dimensions with the addition of time as the fourth).

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of four-dimensional gathered in one view.

adjective

(physics) Relating to the four dimensions of space-time (three spatial dimensions with the addition of time as the fourth).

adjective

(algebraic geometry) Having four dimensions; being measurable along four mutually perpendicular axes.

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for four-dimensional.

adjective

(physics) Relating to the four dimensions of space-time (three spatial dimensions with the addition of time as the fourth).

adjective

(algebraic geometry) Having four dimensions; being measurable along four mutually perpendicular axes.

Example sentences

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It's not particularly playable, but it is true four-dimensional space with four-dimensional spaceships zipping around.

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One way to do this calculation is to use a discrete four-dimensional lattice to model a section of space-time.

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Human brains simply are not designed to understand, at a deep intuitive level, things like the geometry of four-dimensional pseudo-Riemannian manifolds.

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No thank you; cyclists treat stop signs as four-dimensional yields for some damn good reasons.

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With math, we can calculate what it would be like to navigate in four-dimensional space.

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The OP could have simply said that, in relativity, there's no force called gravity, instead planets orbit their parent bodies because of curved four-dimensional spacetime.

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I guess we just use four-dimensional spacetime only when it's necessary and treat it as good old time-that-marches-on when we don't have to.

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Therefore, she will have a four-dimensional color space.

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> Human brains simply are not designed to understand, at a deep intuitive level, things like the geometry of four-dimensional pseudo-Riemannian manifolds.

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It is thought that the four-dimensional space, which you may have just been thinking about, exists due to distant entangled quarks and may be the thing we call space-time.

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I too believe that the line between life and non-life is fuzzier than it looks, and that our four-dimensional information patterns are difficult to disentangle from the surrounding ecosystem, and the seemingly unalive habitat in which we dwell.

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Maxwell's equations aside, this relation is four-dimensional, because two of its dimensions (e and m) are dependent on the other four (x, y, z, and t), making the relation a function: x×y×z×t→e×m.

Quote examples

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Also, the rendering of the wormhole as a four-dimensional "hole" embedded in three-dimensional space was absolutely gorgeous.

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One of his results is a proof of the four-dimensional Poincaré Conjecture".

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My favorite phrase in this article was "four-dimensional enraged-leprechaun hypercube visualization".

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Going a little further with the thought (and I am definitely not a physicist), what if that electron "loop" (or even the "single electron") is itself moving within the four-dimensional space.

Frequently asked questions

Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.

How do you use four-dimensional in a sentence?

It's not particularly playable, but it is true four-dimensional space with four-dimensional spaceships zipping around.

What does four-dimensional mean?

(physics) Relating to the four dimensions of space-time (three spatial dimensions with the addition of time as the fourth).

What part of speech is four-dimensional?

four-dimensional is commonly used as adjective.