imaginaries
- 1Plural of imaginary.
Engineers often combine reals and imaginaries when modeling alternating-current circuits.
The lecture showed how imaginaries arise naturally from the square roots of negative quantities.
Note
A plural that leans on the countable noun. An imaginary is an imaginary number, the adjective standing in for the whole phrase, so imaginaries pairs naturally with reals. The noun meaning imagination or fancy names a faculty rather than separate things and seldom needs a plural. Before a noun, keep the adjective unchanged: imaginary numbers, never imaginaries numbers.
imaginaries is a form of imaginary
imaginary, noun: A complex number with no real component; a real multiple of the imaginary unit. Full entry
- Forms
- imaginaryimaginaries plural
- Spelling
- imaginary → imaginaries: change y to i, add -es
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