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hy·per·cube | \ ˈhī-pər-ˌkyüb 
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\Definition of hypercube
1 : a geometric figure (such as a tesseract) in Euclidean space of n dimensions that is analogous to a cube in three dimensions
2 : a computer architecture in which each processor is connected to n others based on analogy to a hypercube of n dimensions
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The first known use of hypercube was in 1909
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