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ˌfourth diˈmension noun
the fourth dimensionan expression meaning ‘time’, used especially by scientists and writers of sciencefiction 第四维〔即时间,尤为科学家和科幻小说作家所用〕
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the fourth dimension• "I think there's a fourthdimension, and taking drugs allows you to explore it, " said Streminski.
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fourth dimension• To change to a left handed helix it must pass through a fourth dimension.• The manifesto was many things to many artists and tended to seek a compromise among the variousconcepts of the fourth dimension.• The pursuit of the fourth dimension through art was highly fashionable in the first half of the twentieth century.• More generally still, the fourth dimension came to be equated with something that our eyes are incapable of seeing.• The fourth dimension also played a part in uniting a number of abstractpainters and sculptors in the inter-war period.