fourth dimension

1. 1.

   the fourth coordinate that is required (along with three spatial dimensions) to specify a physical event

   Synonymstime

   Broaderdimension

Questions about fourth dimension

What does fourth dimension mean?

fourth dimension means "the fourth coordinate that is required (along with three spatial dimensions) to specify a physical event".

What is another word for fourth dimension?

Close synonyms include time. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is fourth dimension a common word?

fourth dimension is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.