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hyperdonut en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• /ˌhaɪpəˈdəʊnʌt/ (Received-Pronunciation)
• /ˌhaɪpəɹˈdoʊ(ˌ)nʌt/ (General-American)

Etymology

From hyper- + donut.

Meanings

1. (informal) A hypertorus.
   • Our universe apparently has three spatial dimensions, so if it were donut shaped it would have to be a 3-torus, which is beyond my ability to visualize as its enclosed volume is some kind of hyperdonut in four dimensional space. But what the physical implications of the universe being a 3-donut, and can we look for them? 2016 January 18, Alex Klotz, “The Simpson-Hawking Donut Universe”, in Post-Doc Ergo Propter Hoc:
   • An eight-dimensional hyperdonut is complicated enough to let me hand-wave concerns for sensibility. 2018 September 1, Ted, “A Torus of Timelines”, in Ted Writes:
   • You’re unable to manage the mess of hyperdonuts and find yourself lost in hyperspace! 2021 September 16, “Lab 1: Nodes”, in Brown University Department of Computer Science:
   • What does all this mean in practice? Well, we don’t expect our quantum processors to look like hyperdonuts. 2024 February 22, Guanyu Zhu, Andrew Cross, Ben Brown, Ryan Mandelbaum, “Computing with error-corrected quantum computers”, in IBM:

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