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• Imaginary friend — Imaginary friends, also known as imaginary companions , are pretend characters often created by children. Imaginary friends often function as (or perform a tutelary function) when they are engaged by the child in play activityFact|date=February… …   Wikipedia

• imaginary — adj 1 Imaginary, fanciful, visionary, fantastic, chimerical, quixotic are comparable when they are applied to conceptions or to the persons who form the conceptions and mean unreal or unbelievable and out of keeping with things as they are or… …   New Dictionary of Synonyms

• Imaginary voyage — is a kind of narrative in which utopian or satirical representation (or some popular science content) is put into a fictional frame of travel account. History It s very archaic narrative technique preceding romance and novelistic forms. Two known …   Wikipedia

• imaginary, imaginative — Imaginary means not real, fancied, existing only in the imagination : Jock is acting: his illness is only imaginary. This novelist makes imaginary characters seem more real than actual people. Imaginative applies to someone who can form mental… …   Dictionary of problem words and expressions

• imaginary number — n. a complex number in the form a + bi where b is not zero: when a is zero, it is a pure imaginary number …   English World dictionary

• Imaginary number — In mathematics, an imaginary number (or purely imaginary number) is a complex number whose squared value is a real number not greater than zero.Ahlfors, Lars V. Complex Analysis. 3rd Ed. New York: McGraw Hill, 1979. Pages 1 4.] The imaginary unit …   Wikipedia

• Imaginary line (mathematics) — In geometry, an imaginary line is a straight line that only contains one real point. It can be proven that this point is the intersection point with the conjugated line.It is a special case of an imaginary curve.It can be proven that there exists …   Wikipedia

• Imaginary Worlds - the Art of Fantasy — Infobox Book name = Imaginary Worlds: the Art of Fantasy title orig = translator = image caption = Cover of the first edition author = Lin Carter illustrator = cover artist = Gervasio Gallardo country = U.S.A. language = English series =… …   Wikipedia

• imaginary number — Math. Also called imaginary, pure imaginary number. a complex number having its real part equal to zero. [1905 10] * * * Any number of the form a + bi where a and b are real numbers, i is the square root of 1, and b is not zero. If a is zero, the …   Universalium

• Imaginary part — In mathematics, the imaginary part of a complex number z, is the second element of the ordered pair of real numbers representing z, i.e. if z = (x, y) , or equivalently, z = x+iy, then the imaginary part of z is y. It is denoted by Im (z) or Im{… …   Wikipedia

• imaginary number — noun (mathematics) a number of the form a+bi where a and b are real numbers and i is the square root of 1 • Syn: ↑complex number, ↑complex quantity, ↑imaginary • Topics: ↑mathematics, ↑math, ↑maths …   Useful english dictionary