Imaginary

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  • adjective. Having existence only in the imagination; unreal.
  • adjective. undefined
  • adjective. Of or being the coefficient of the imaginary unit in a complex number.
  • adjective. Of, involving, or being an imaginary number.
  • adjective. Involving only a complex number of which the real part is zero.
  • noun. An imaginary number.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Existing only in imagination or fancy; due to erroneous belief or conception; not real; baseless; fancied: opposed to actual.
  • In mathematics, unreal and feigned in accordance with the theory of imaginary quantities.
  • Synonyms Ideal, fanciful, fancied, visionary, unreal, shadowy, Utopian. Imaginary and imaginative are never synonymous: imaginary means existing only in the imagination; imaginative means possessed of or showing an active imagination.
  • noun. In algebra, an imaginary expression or quantity.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. An imaginary expression or quantity.
  • adjective. Existing only in imagination or fancy; not real; fancied; visionary; ideal.
  • adjective. See under Calculus.
  • adjective. an algebraic expression which involves the impossible operation of taking the square root of a negative quantity; as, √-9, a + b √-1.
  • adjective. undefined
  • adjective. points, lines, surfaces, etc., imagined to exist, although by reason of certain changes of a figure they have in fact ceased to have a real existence.
  • adjective. undefined
  • adjective. undefined
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adjective. existing only in the imagination
  • adjective. of a number, having no real part; that part of a complex number which is a multiple of the square root of -1.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • adjective. not based on fact; unreal
  • noun. (mathematics) a number of the form a+bi where a and b are real numbers and i is the square root of -1
  • Word Usage
    "Because Larry’s Fundy brain is so locked by his literalism he simply thinks “imaginary numbers” are *actually imaginary* ,that is to say not real, they do not exist."
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