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imaginary::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | complex number, complex quantity, imaginary number |
| Type of | number |
| Has types | complex conjugate, pure imaginary number, real, real number |
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With younger children, the imaginary play can help them work out their problems.
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Once nostalgic for an imaginary America, Disneyland is now nostalgic for itself.
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Over time, he had become more paranoid, moody and jealous for imaginary reasons.
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Porter's songs automatically put you in an imaginary musical of your own making.
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Like many of their Western neighbors, Utahns have been promised imaginary water.
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In the prodromew, people can see and hear imaginary things or have odd thoughts.
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This man seems imaginary, until Brian receives facial wounds that don't go away.
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I didn't need any imaginary friends, because I had so much other stuff going on.
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He revs up an imaginary throttle on imaginary handlebars and imitates an engine.
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- Complex number: (mathematics) a number of the form a+bi where a and b are real numbers and i is the square root of -1
- Fanciful: not based on fact; unreal; "the falsehood about some fanciful secret treaties"- F.D.Roosevelt; "a small child's imaginary friends"; "to create a notional world for oneself"
- Fallen is the debut studio album by American rock band Evanescence. It was released through Wind-up Records on March 4, 2003. The album is the band's most successful album to date, with more than seven million copies sold in the United States, and over fifteen million copies worldwide. ...
- Imaginary is an interactive traveling exhibition by the Mathematischen Forschungsinstituts Oberwolfach created for the Year of Mathematics 2008 in Germany. ...
- An imaginary, or social imaginary is the set of values, institutions, laws, and symbols common to a particular social group and the corresponding society. ...
- The Imaginary order is one of a triptych of terms in the psychoanalytic theory of Jacques Lacan, along with the symbolic and the real. Each of the trio of terms emerged gradually over time, and underwent an evolution during the development of Lacan's thought. ...
- The Imaginary, first published in French in 1940, is one of Jean-Paul Sartre's important but often-overlooked works. It lays out Sartre's concepts of the imagination and what it says about the nature of human consciousness that we can imagine at all.
- The Imaginary is a science fiction short story by Isaac Asimov. It first appeared in the November 1942 issue of Super Science Stories and was reprinted in the 1972 collection The Early Asimov. ...
- (Imaginaries) In mathematical model theory, an imaginary element of a structure is roughly a definable equivalence class. These were introduced by , and elimination of imaginaries was introduced by
