imaginary
IPA: ɪmˈædʒʌnɛri
noun
- Imagination; fancy.
- (mathematics) An imaginary number.
- (sociology) The set of values, institutions, laws, and symbols common to a particular social group and the corresponding society through which people imagine their social whole.
adjective
- Existing only in the imagination.
- (mathematics, of a number) Having no real part; that part of a complex number which is a multiple of √ (called imaginary unit).
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Examples of "imaginary" in Sentences
- The story of the movie is imaginary.
- The imaginary part is called the virtual boundary line.
- Let the axis be the real axis and the axis be the imaginary axis.
- The real and imaginary parts of this equation give the two formulas.
- The album is a paranoiac soundtrack to an imaginary Giallo horror film.
- Exploring the unkown expanses of the imaginary world is always exciting.
- Incidentally, the imaginary numbers are no more boundless than the reals.
- At the end of an imaginary hour of frantic bargaining, the auction closes.
- But, what is the meaning of imaginary time in context of the speed of light
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