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imaginary

/ɪˈmædʒɪn(ə)ɹi/ · noun

Meaning

  1. Imagination; fancy.
  2. An imaginary quantity.
  3. 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.
  4. Existing only in the imagination.
  5. (of a number) Having no real part; that part of a complex number which is a multiple of the square root of -1.

Etymology / origin

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Sources

  1. DictionaryAPI.dev English dictionary data
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