English [edit]
Etymology [edit]
From Latin imāginārius (“relating to images, fancied”), from imāgo.
Pronunciation [edit]
- (UK) IPA: /ɪˈmadʒɪn(ə)ɹi/
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Adjective [edit]
imaginary (comparative more imaginary, superlative most imaginary)
- existing only in the imagination
- (mathematics) of a number, having no real part; that part of a complex number which is a multiple of the square root of -1.
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Translations [edit]
existing in imagination
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- Asturian: imaxinariu (ast)
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- Czech: pomyslný (cs) m
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- Dutch: denkbeeldig (nl)
- Finnish: kuvitteellinen, imaginaarinen, imaginaari- (in compounds)
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- Galician: imaxinario (gl)
- German: eingebildet (de)
- Greek: φανταστικός (el) (fantastikós)
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- Irish: samhailteach (ga), samhlaithe (ga), samhlaitheach (ga)
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- Italian: immaginario (it)
- Khmer: ដែលមានតែក្នុងមនោគតិ (km) (dael mien tae knong mea’noo kea’te’)
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- Mirandese: manginário, eimaginário
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- Polish: zmyślony (pl) m
- Portuguese: imaginário (pt)
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- Russian: воображаемый (ru) (voobražájemyj) , мнимый (ru) (mnímyj) , вымышленный (ru) (výmyšlennyj)
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non-real part of a complex number
imaginary (plural imaginaries)
- Imagination; fancy. [from 16th c.]
- 2002, Colin Jones, The Great Nation, Penguin 2003, p. 324:
- By then too Mozart's opera, from Da Ponte's libretto, had made Figaro a stock character in the European imaginary and set the whole Continent whistling Mozartian airs and chuckling at Figaresque humour.
- (mathematics) An imaginary quantity. [from 18th c.]
External links [edit]
Imaginary number on Wikipedia.Wikipedia:Imaginary number
