IMAGINARY | English meaning - Cambridge Dictionary
Meaning of imaginary in English
imaginary Our daughter had an imaginary friend when she was six. made-up The comedian started with some obviously made-up stories about hanging out with the Queen. make-believe Some politicians seem to live in a make-believe world where everything revolves around their interests. non-existent These accounts are used to sell fake or non-existent goods. fantastic Her books were filled with magicians and fantastic creatures.
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(Definition of imaginary from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus
Examples of imaginary
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A purely imaginary constant could be added on the right here, but it can be assumed to vanish.
It is tempting to try to compare this volume to an imaginary book which it doesn't try to be.
For the objects they take to be real beings are in fact imaginary , not real.
The real part of k gives the wave number of the oscillations and the imaginary part determines 2 the spatial growth of the amplitude.
But if the object is just a hallucination, its ontological status will be that of an imaginary object.
This is equivalent to creating an imaginary sphere around each singular point which the measurement points cannot move into during optimisation.
Conjectures 2.12 and 2.13 are related to elimination of imaginaries as studied in model theory.
These changes and control of space echoed the state endeavour to create anew the social imaginary that symbolized a more "civilized" future with economic success.
Unlike many other travel works of his day, however, he did not back-date these letters or devise a fictive dialogue with an imaginary correspondent.
In this imaginary situation, you could eventually come to think that you were somehow causing the movement.
The meromorphy bar s the existence of certain configurations, while other s are explained by assuming imaginary residues.
Even so, we may see in the nineteenth century, in differing forms and situations, concerns that still dominate the cultural imaginary .
Designing only imaginary projects can over-intellectualize the design process and distance a designer from architectural issues which affect people's real lives.
The stimulus patches were sectors of an imaginary annulus centered on the fixation point.
The interpretation is also imaginary for all spaces embedded in counterfactual or other distanced spaces.
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Translations of imaginary
in Chinese (Traditional)
想像中的, 虛構的…
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想象中的, 虚构的…
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imaginario, imaginario/ria [masculine-feminine]…
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imaginário, imaginário/-ia…
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கற்பனையான ஒன்று மனதில் மட்டுமே உருவாக்கப்படுகிறது.…
tenkt, imaginær, fantasi-…
ఊహాత్మకమైనది/ మనస్సులో మాత్రమే సృష్టించబడేది, ఉనికిలో ఉండేది…
zmyślony, wyimaginowany, wymyślony…
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