imaginary

For decades, quantum mechanics has relied on complex numbers, which combine a real component with an imaginary component.

From Science Daily ● Jul. 13, 2026

Actors search for emotional truth in imaginary lives.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 13, 2026

In the corner, Lionel Messi was moving almost in slow motion, his arms methodically swinging against an imaginary tide.

From BBC ● Jun. 27, 2026

Sometimes the text will address a bird as “you,” as if to participate in an imaginary conversation.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 12, 2026

His regard for her was quite imaginary; and the possibility of her deserving her mother’s reproach prevented his feeling any regret.

From "Pride and Prejudice" by Jane Austen

“We have to, as artists, find the courage to disrupt convention, practice the spreading of hope and cultivate new stories and imaginaries that challenge divisive binaries.”

From Seattle Times ● Oct. 24, 2023

“I love how he weaves in the African oceanic imaginaries, the long durée of African historical inter-relationships with the world, and with itself,” Owuor added.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 18, 2021

These were found in the anharmonic ratio, a device leading to the liberation of synthetic geometry from metrical relations, and in involution, which yielded rigorous definitions of imaginaries.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 6 "Geodesy" to "Geometry" by Various

Poncelet throughout his work makes continual use of the foregoing theories of imaginaries and infinity, and also of the before-mentioned theory of reciprocal polars.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 8 "Cube" to "Daguerre, Louis" by Various

The theorem is here referred to partly on account of its bearing on the theory of imaginaries in geometry.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 8 "Cube" to "Daguerre, Louis" by Various