imaginary
121imaginary — adj fictitious, unreal, fancied, fanciful, fantastic; illusory, dreamy, visionary, shadowy, chimerical; mythical, legendary, mythological; figmental, fictive, notional, abstract; quixotic, Utopian, romantic, idealistic; extravagant, wild, high… …
122imaginary — imag·i·nary …
123imaginary — adjective Syn: unreal, non existent, fictional, pretend, make believe, invented, made up, illusory Ant: real …
124imaginary — adj. 1 existing only in the imagination. 2 Math. being the square root of a negative quantity, and plotted graphically in a direction usu. perpendicular to the axis of real quantities (see REAL(1)). Derivatives: imaginarily adv. Etymology: ME f.… …
125imaginary unit — noun Date: circa 1911 the positive square root of minus 1 denoted by i or + √ 1 …
126imaginary axis — Math. the vertical axis in an Argand diagram. * * * …
127imaginary part — Math. the coefficient b in the complex number a + bi. Cf. real part. [1925 30] * * * …
128imaginary unit — Math. the complex number i. [1905 10] * * * …