imaginary

My imaginary scenario could still be decades in the future, but a reality where people pay for air doesn’t seem like a joke anymore.

From Salon ● Jul. 19, 2026

“Should we work together to shift everything closer to the imaginary hyperdrive? Should our greatest goal be to create a society with even more intense accelerations?”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 13, 2026

In the mathematical description of a quantum state, the real part represents the amplitude, while the imaginary part represents the phase.

From Science Daily ● Jul. 13, 2026

Actors search for emotional truth in imaginary lives.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 13, 2026

He even kicked at this imaginary thing with a foot.

From "A Place to Belong" by Cynthia Kadohata

“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

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

It will be recollected that the expression number and the correlative epithet numerical were at the outset used in a wide sense, as extending to imaginaries.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 7 "Equation" to "Ethics" by Various

In other words, we have a justification for representing imaginary quantities by lines perpendicular to the line on which we represent real quantities, as is done in the graphic treatment of imaginaries in algebra.

From The Teaching of Geometry by Smith, David Eugene