imaginary
Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
imaginary/ɪˈmaʤɪnəri/
▶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.
imaginarily adverb.
– origin ME: from L. imaginarius, from imago, imagin- ‘image’.
'imaginary' also found in these Oxford entries:
acoustic impedance
- agonic line
- air guitar
- A-list
- Argand diagram
- axis
- backward
- Barmecide
- being
- body dysmorphic disorder
- boojum
- bugbear
- capriccio
- celestial sphere
- complex
- confabulate
- conjugate
- coronal plane
- Date Line
- dummy
- dystopia
- Easter bunny
- equant
- fabled
- fabulous
- fairy
- fairyland
- fairy story
- fantasy
- Father Christmas
- fiction
- fictitious
- giant
- gold
- golden age
- hemisphere
- hobbit
- Hughie
- i
- j
- Lilliputian
- line
- little green man
- magnetic equator
- marine
- Maxwell's demon
- mean sun
- metacentre
- modulus
