hypercube

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English

WOTD – 13 May 2008
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A rotating hypercube (tesseract)

Etymology

From hyper- +‎ cube

Pronunciation

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Noun

hypercube (plural hypercubes)

  1. (geometry) A geometric figure in four or more dimensions, which is analogous to a cube in three dimensions. Specifically, the n-dimensional equivalent of a cube for any non-negative integer n.
  2. (geometry) Such a figure in four dimensions; a tesseract.
  3. (computing) A data cube with more than three dimensions.
  4. (computing) A computer architecture in which each processor is connected to n others, by analogy with a hypercube of n dimensions.

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French

Etymology

hyper- +‎ cube

Pronunciation

Noun

hypercube m (plural hypercubes)

  1. hypercube

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