Word of the day

Tesseract

In geometry, the tesseract is the four-dimensional analog of the cube; the tesseract is to the cube as the cube is to the square. Just as the surface of the cube consists of six square faces, the hypersurface of the tesseract consists of eight cubical cells. The tesseract is one of the six convex regular 4-polytopes. The tesseract is also called an 8-cell, C8, (regular) octachoron, octahedroid, cubic prism, and tetracube (although this last term can also mean a polycube made of four cubes). It is the four-dimensional hypercube, or 4-cube as a part of the dimensional family of hypercubes or "measure polytopes".

Word of the day

Today's word of the day is:
askance  - a·skance  (ə-skăns′) also a·skant (ə-skănt′) adv.

1. With disapproval, suspicion, or distrust: "The area is so dirty that merchants report the tourists are looking askance" (Chris Black).

2. With a sideways glance; obliquely.

Related to:

Biology: Retina is a neural tissue containing photoreceptors, cons and rods. Rods are used for night vision, better in dim light, they are found in the sides of the retina, helping with peripheral vision. To see better in the night, you need to look at the objects askance. Also related to cons shaped photoreceptors and the improvement in speed reading.

Word of the day - 23/08/15

History will be kind with me, for i intend to write it.
(Churchill)