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Fourth dimension   /fɔrθ dɪmˈɛnʃən/   Listen
Fourth dimension

noun
1.
The fourth coordinate that is required (along with three spatial dimensions) to specify a physical event.  Synonym: time.






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"Fourth dimension" Quotes from Famous Books



... shewn me the intestines of all my countrymen in the Land of Two Dimensions by taking me with him into the Land of Three. What therefore more easy than now to take his servant on a second journey into the blessed region of the Fourth Dimension, where I shall look down with him once more upon this land of Three Dimensions, and see the inside of every three-dimensioned house, the secrets of the solid earth, the treasures of the mines of Spaceland, and the intestines of every ...
— Flatland • Edwin A. Abbott

... but sat musing. After all, what COULD be proved with absolute certainty? Why, nothing, except such bare facts as that two and two make four. Was even mathematical proof so absolutely certain? Were they not already beginning to talk of a possible fourth dimension of space when even that might no ...
— We Two • Edna Lyall



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