{ "type": "wiki", "pronunciations": { "phonetic": [ "\u02cc\u026a\u02c8m\u00e6\u02a4\u0259\u02ccn\u025bri" ], "listenurl": [ { "lang": "Audio (GA)", "url": "" }, { "lang": "Audio (GA)", "url": "" } ] }, "meansorg": { "etymologies": [ "From Middle English ymaginarie, ymagynary, from Latin im\u0101gin\u0101rius (\u201crelating to images, fancied\u201d), from im\u0101g\u014d.\nThe mathematical sense derives from Ren\u00e9 Descartes's use (of the French imaginaire) in 1637, La Geometrie, to ridicule the notion of regarding non-real roots of polynomials as numbers.1 Although Descartes' usage was derogatory, the designation stuck even after the concept gained acceptance in the 18th century." ], "typelist": [ { "name": "Adjective", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "Existing only in the imagination.\nUnicorns are imaginary.\n1712 (date written), Addison, Cato, a Tragedy.\u00a0, London: J Tonson,\u00a0, published 1713, \u2192OCLC, Act I, scene iv, page 1:Wilt thou add to all the griefs I suffer / Imaginary ills and fancied tortures?" }, { "mean": "(mathematics, of a number) Having no real part; that part of a complex number which is a multiple of \n\n\n\n\n\n\u2212\n1\n\n\n\n\n{\\displaystyle {\\sqrt {-1}}}\n\n (called imaginary unit)." } ] }, { "name": "Noun", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "Imagination; fancy. \n2002, Colin Jones, The Great Nation, Penguin, published 2003, page 324:By then too Mozart's opera, from Da Ponte's libretto, had made Figaro a stock character in the European imaginary and set the whole Continent whistling Mozartian airs and chuckling at Figaresque humour." }, { "mean": "(mathematics) An imaginary number." }, { "mean": "(sociology) 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. \n1978, John Derrickson McCurdy, Visionary Appropriation, page 145:The sensory media are sensuous materials which prolong our bodily life into the surrounding world, and hence the media are imaginaries. These perceptually penetrated materials are \" imaginaries \" because they operate here in our living body .\n1994, Graham Dawson, Soldier Heroes: British Adventure, Empire, and the Imagining ..., page 51:For example, colonial motifs of many kinds became increasingly central to the British national imaginary from the mid-nineteenth century, while the imaginative significance of 'the soldier' has long been derived from, and helped to sustain, the linkage between national and military imaginaries.\n2015, Adrian Daub, Elisabeth Krimmer, Goethe Yearbook 22, page 96:While Oil, its extraction, and the global petroculture and its role in transforming the planet's climate undoubtedly play a crucial role in the Antropocene imaginary\u00a0\u2014 to the extent that petrofiction has been construed not just as a genre but as a periodizing gesture of \"petromodernity\"\u00a0 \u2014 it would hamper both the imagination and the root of petrofiction to restrict the range of this term to the encounter with fossil fuels within a carbon imaginary." } ] }, { "name": "References", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "^ Earliest Known Uses of Some of the Words of Mathematics (I)\n\n\n\n\n\n\n -->\nRetrieved from \"https://en.wiktionary.org/w/index.php?title=imaginaryoldid=76000733\"\n\t\tCategories: English terms inherited from Middle EnglishEnglish terms derived from Middle EnglishEnglish terms derived from LatinEnglish 5-syllable wordsEnglish 4-syllable wordsEnglish terms with IPA pronunciationEnglish terms with audio linksEnglish lemmasEnglish adjectivesEnglish terms with usage examplesEnglish terms with quotationsen:MathematicsEnglish nounsEnglish countable nounsen:SociologyHidden categories: Requests for translations into AragoneseRequests for translations into AssameseRequests for translations into CherokeeRequests for translations into ChichewaTerms with redundant transliterationsTerms with redundant transliterations/cmnRequests for translations into CorsicanRequests for translations into DhivehiRequests for translations into GujaratiRequests for translations into HausaRequests for translations into IgboRequests for review of Khmer translationsRequests for translations into LugandaRequests for translations into PashtoRequests for translations into PunjabiRequests for translations into RajasthaniRequests for translations into ScotsRequests for translations into SicilianRequests for translations into SindhiRequests for translations into SinhaleseRequests for translations into SomaliRequests for translations into TamilRequests for translations into TeluguRequests for translations into TurkmenTea roomRequests for attention concerning EnglishQuotation templates to be cleaned\n\t\n\n\n\n\tNavigation menu\n\t\n\t\t\n\n\t\n\t\tPersonal tools\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\tNot logged inTalkContributionsCreate accountLog in\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\n\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\n\t\n\t\tNamespaces\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\tEntryDiscussion\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\n\n\n\t\t\t\n\n\t\n\t\n\t\tEnglish\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\n\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\n\t\n\t\tViews\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\tReadEditHistory\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\n\n\n\t\t\t\n\n\t\n\t\n\t\tMore\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\n\n\n\t\t\t\n\n\tSearch\n\t\n\t\t
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