imaginary
/ɪˈmædʒɪn(ə)ɹi/ · noun
Meaning
- Imagination; fancy.
- An imaginary quantity.
- 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.
- Existing only in the imagination.
- (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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