transdimensional adj.
designating movement between dimensions; involving more than one dimension
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1931
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Clark Ashton Smith
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The transdimensional adventures of Angarth and Felix Ebbonly, the city of the Flame with its strange residents and pilgrims, the immolation of Ebbonly, and the hinted return of the narrator himself for a like purpose…were very much the sort of thing that Angarth might have imagined in one of the fantastic novels for which he had become so justly famous.
Beyond the Singing Flame in Wonder Stories Nov. 753/1 -
1933
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Clark Ashton Smith
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Caught in the pull of some transdimensional vortex wrought by the crescent vessel as it departed from earth, I had followed the vessel to its own world, which adjoined ours in transcendental space.
Light From Beyond in Wonder Stories Apr. 828/1 -
1940
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Hal K. Wells
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Henry hastily looked himself over in some trepidation to see if he had lost any parts during his weird transdimensional flight. He hadn’t.
Dimension-Hazard in Super Science Stories Nov. 43/2 -
1950 Thrilling Wonder Stories Oct. 7
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To work around the universal-mass theory they have come up with something called ‘subspace’ or ‘hyperspace’—a mathematically possible transdimensional universe into which such travelers can dip at will, emerging where and when they please.
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1962
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Robert F. Young
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On the desk before him lay the sheet of paper on which he had just finished drawing the diagram of the micro-macro transdimensional project which he had been working on.
Plane Jane in Fantastic Stories of Imagination Sept. 8/2 -
1980
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S. P. Somtow
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With enormous power expenditure it is possible to force open a transdimensional window.
Rabid in Mallworld in Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction June 43 -
1992
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Paul Di Filippo
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Finally, I gratefully sever the adopted links, watching them retract through their transdimensional wormholes.
Lennon Spex in Amazing Stories July 19/1 -
2015 SFX (#266) Nov. 94/3
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It makes sense to tweak the details, updating the original Mercury 7-era spaceflight for a transdimensional jaunt.
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antedating 1931
Earliest cite
Clark Ashton Smith, in Wonder Stories
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