imaginary

Etymology
From, , from , from , equivalent to.

The mathematical sense derives from 's use (of the French ) in 1637, La Geometrie, to ridicule the notion of regarding non-real roots of polynomials as numbers. Although Descartes' usage was derogatory, the designation stuck even after the concept gained acceptance in the 18th century.

Adjective

 * 1) Existing only in the imagination.
 * 2)  Having no real part; that part of a complex number which is a multiple of $$\sqrt{-1}$$ (called imaginary unit).
 * 1)  Having no real part; that part of a complex number which is a multiple of $$\sqrt{-1}$$ (called imaginary unit).
 * 1)  Having no real part; that part of a complex number which is a multiple of $$\sqrt{-1}$$ (called imaginary unit).

Translations

 * Afrikaans: denkbeeldig, imaginêr
 * Arabic:
 * Aragonese:
 * Armenian:
 * Assamese:
 * Asturian: imaxinariu
 * Azerbaijani:, uydurulmuş, ,
 * Belarusian: уя́ўны, выабража́льны, вы́думаны
 * Bengali:
 * Bulgarian: ,
 * Catalan:
 * Cherokee:
 * Chichewa:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Corsican:
 * Czech: ,
 * Danish: imaginær, indbildt
 * Dhivehi:
 * Dutch: ,
 * Estonian: imaginaarne
 * Finnish: imaginaari-,
 * French:
 * Galician: imaxinario
 * Georgian: წარმოსახვითი
 * German: ,
 * Greek:
 * Ancient: φαντασιώδης
 * Gujarati:
 * Hausa:
 * Hawaiian: moeā
 * Hebrew:
 * Hindi: कल्पनिक
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic: ímyndaður
 * Ido:, ,
 * Igbo:
 * Indonesian: ,
 * Interlingua: imaginari
 * Irish: íomháineach, samhailteach, samhlaithe, samhlaitheach, taibhriúil
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: ,
 * Kazakh: қиялдағы
 * Khmer:
 * Korean: ,
 * Kurdish:
 * Northern Kurdish:
 * Latin: imaginarius, phantasticus
 * Latvian: iedomāts
 * Lithuanian: įsivaizduojamas
 * Luganda:
 * Luxembourgish: imaginär
 * Macedonian: имагина́рен, замислен
 * Malayalam: സാങ്കൽപ്പിക
 * Maori: pohewa
 * Marathi: काल्पनिक
 * Mirandese: manginário, eimaginário
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål:, , innbilt
 * Nynorsk: tenkt
 * Pashto:
 * Persian:
 * Piedmontese: imaginari
 * Polish:, , imaginacyjny
 * Portuguese:
 * Punjabi:
 * Rajasthani:
 * Romanian: ,
 * Russian:, , ,
 * Scots:
 * Scottish Gaelic: mac-meanmnach
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: и̏магина̄ран, ѝзмишљен
 * Roman: ,
 * Sicilian:
 * Sindhi:
 * Sinhalese:
 * Slovak: pomyselný, imaginárny
 * Slovene: namišljen,, navidezen
 * Somali:
 * Spanish:
 * Swahili: -a kubuni
 * Swedish: ,
 * Tajik: хаёлӣ
 * Tamil:
 * Telugu:
 * Thai: จินตภาพ
 * Turkish: ,
 * Turkmen:
 * Ukrainian: уя́вний, ви́гаданий
 * Welsh:


 * Afrikaans: imaginêr
 * Bulgarian:
 * Czech:
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:, imaginaari-
 * Galician: imaxinario
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Hungarian: ,
 * Indonesian:
 * Latvian:
 * Polish: urojona
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian:
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:

Noun

 * 1) Imagination; fancy.
 * 2)  An imaginary number.
 * 3)  The set of values, institutions, laws, and symbols common to a particular social group and the corresponding society through which people imagine their social whole.
 * 1)  The set of values, institutions, laws, and symbols common to a particular social group and the corresponding society through which people imagine their social whole.