The sidewalk had become a four-dimensional diagram. From Wordnik.com. [Bad Luck and Trouble]
So it had to be settled right here; no four-dimensional stunts. From Wordnik.com. [Blue Adept]
It's a four-dimensional view of a subject that is so often presented in two. From Wordnik.com. [Carter Phipps: Nuclear-Tipped Pakistan and Stone Age Afghanistan] Reference
By the end of the day Leeman felt like a flatworm in a four-dimensional maze. From Wordnik.com. [World of Ptavvs]
To be a four-dimensional manifold, the set of events must be a little bit more organized. From Wordnik.com. [The Hole Argument] Reference
Instead, it was partially a four-dimensional pseudo-manifold superimposed on normal space. From Wordnik.com. [Pagan Passions] Reference
Tib and Tibbles are both long-lasting four-dimensional objects, according to perdurantists. From Wordnik.com. [Temporal Parts] Reference
More ominously, the flying machine was trailing four-dimensional streamers of quantum flux. From Wordnik.com. [Ilium]
Similarly, perhaps it's up to us which of the multitude of four-dimensional objects count as. From Wordnik.com. [Temporal Parts] Reference
Alec had put it together to satisfy the Captain's desire to function in four-dimensional space. From Wordnik.com. [The Life of the World to Come]
The two four-dimensional Clifford algebras are the 2 × 2 matrices and the quaternions. From Wordnik.com. [Algebra] Reference
All of this, of course, would look quite extraordinary to us from our four-dimensional perspective. From Wordnik.com. [Extraphysical and Extrasensory Powers] Reference
This conclusion, however, does not refute the relativistic explanation of four-dimensional space-time. From Wordnik.com. [What Does a Buddha Know in Knowing the Past, Present, and Future? ��� Part Two: Variant Indian Buddhist Views Concerning Temporally Related Phenomena] Reference
The fact that four numbers are just sufficient to label the events makes the manifold four-dimensional. From Wordnik.com. [The Hole Argument] Reference
Such a common locus might be, for instance, the temporal axis of a fixed four-dimensional space-time grid. From Wordnik.com. [What Does a Buddha Know in Knowing the Past, Present, and Future? ��� Part Two: Variant Indian Buddhist Views Concerning Temporally Related Phenomena] Reference
As a result, gravitational physics looks four-dimensional at short distances and five-dimensional at large distances. From Wordnik.com. [From Quantum to Cosmos-II] Reference
Her heart swelled with love and understanding and her brain reeled, infused and imprinted with four-dimensional time. From Wordnik.com. [Asimov's Science Fiction]
I was trying to visualize how to construct a tesseract around a four-dimensional sphere when I drifted away to sleep. From Wordnik.com. [Orphans of Chaos] Reference
This four-dimensional understanding of ordinary objects is now commonplace, but at that time it was something of a rarity. From Wordnik.com. [StanisÅaw LeÅniewski] Reference
Early on, the visual code became four-dimensional, figures depicted from various angles in space and shown changing with time. From Wordnik.com. [Starfarers]
Take an ordinary gauge theory in flat four-dimensional spacetime, and make it as supersymmetric as possible without adding gravity. From Wordnik.com. [The String Theory Backlash] Reference
Out beyond the dense space that surrounds all stars, the long ship probed the ever-shifting currents in the four-dimensional universe. From Wordnik.com. [General Max Shorter] Reference
So one could say that the Dead is four-dimensional: the breadth, depth and time components all combine to produce the musical heights. From Wordnik.com. ["Dark Star" as an Example of Transcendental Aesthetics] Reference
He should be remembered as a generous and gifted passer, a player with a magnetic foot and a four-dimensional understanding of the game. From Wordnik.com. [2006 World Cup Final] Reference
And I've found graphics programs in here, mathematical equations that translate into three-dimensional shapes -- or four-dimensional ones. From Wordnik.com. [The Silicon Mage]
One could almost have obtained them uniquely by writing down the simplest nontrivial equations for a four-dimensional mathematical quantity. From Wordnik.com. [RELATIVITY] Reference
These remarks indicate that Bolzano conceived of changeable substances such as Cajus as four-dimensional objects, extended in space and time. From Wordnik.com. [Slices of Matisse] Reference
He was in a four-dimensional topological model of the Guide's financial systems, and somebody or something would very shortly want to know why. From Wordnik.com. [Mostly Harmless]
In this role it ties a mathematical theory of events in four-dimensional "curved" spacetime to observations and measurements in space and time. From Wordnik.com. [Early Philosophical Interpretations of General Relativity] Reference
So the effect of the compact fifth dimension is to give us an infinite set of four-dimensional particles, indexed by n, each with a different mass. From Wordnik.com. [Aether Compactification] Reference
At any event in the spacetime, the possible trajectories of all light signals form a cone (or, more precisely, the four-dimensional analog of a cone). From Wordnik.com. [Singularities and Black Holes] Reference
We are unclear about when the building ceases to exist because our use of language just doesn't determine which of these many four-dimensional objects is. From Wordnik.com. [Temporal Parts] Reference
There seemed to be a four-dimensional map in my head, with me in the center and the rest of the universe traveling around me at various changing velocities. From Wordnik.com. [A Hole In Space]
Even the ferry terminal gets in on the act with a "four-dimensional 'Fab4D' show," as well as a new exhibition of previously unseen Lennon family memorabilia. From Wordnik.com. [Magical History Tour] Reference
According to the perdurance account, a persisting thing (such as a person or a cat or a table) is a four-dimensional object that is not wholly present at any one time. From Wordnik.com. [Transworld Identity] Reference
Its tremendous energy caused it, in the first fractions of a second, to expand and explode, creating the four-dimensional space-time universe that we experience today. From Wordnik.com. [Cosmological Argument] Reference
Likewise, in radical disruption cases like that of the bicycles, perdurantists typically recognise a number of different temporarily-coincident four-dimensional objects. From Wordnik.com. [Temporal Parts] Reference
According to perdurantists, talk about the same banana at different times is straightforwardly made true by one and the same four-dimensional object existing at different times. From Wordnik.com. [Temporal Parts] Reference
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