IMAGINARY


Meaning of IMAGINARY in English

■ adjective

1》 existing only in the imagination.

2》 Mathematics (of a number or quantity) expressed in terms of the square root of -1 (represented by i or j ).

Derivatives

imaginarily adverb

Origin

ME: from L. imaginarius , from imago , imagin- 'image'.

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