fourth dimension
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Spacetime is just a mathematical object consisting of the three dimensions of space, and time considered as a fourth dimension.
From Science Daily • Dec. 4, 2023
As Diaz puts it, Calder worked in the fourth dimension — time.
From Seattle Times • Nov. 9, 2023
Their work is rigorously conceptual and often engages with the kind of brain-twisting math many of us have spent our lives avoiding: space-filling curves, string theory, fluid dynamics, the fourth dimension.
From New York Times • Mar. 16, 2023
Time melds a fourth dimension to the three we identify as essential to understanding space.
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 12, 2022
One thing Trout said that Rosewater liked very much was that there really were vampires and werewolves and goblins and angels and so on, but that they were in the fourth dimension.
From "Slaughterhouse-Five" by Kurt Vonnegut
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