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Imaginary time — in quantum mechanics Imaginary time is a concept derived from quantum mechanics and is essential in connecting quantum mechanics with statistical mechanics. Imaginary time scriptstyle au is obtained from real time via a Wick rotation by… … Wikipedia
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Imaginary Conversations — is the best known prose work of the English poet and author Walter Savage Landor. It comprises 6 volumes of imaginary conversations between personalities of classical Greece and Rome, poets and authors, statesmen and women, and fortunate and… … Wikipedia
imaginary, imaginative — Imaginary means not real, fancied, existing only in the imagination : Jock is acting: his illness is only imaginary. This novelist makes imaginary characters seem more real than actual people. Imaginative applies to someone who can form mental… … Dictionary of problem words and expressions
Imaginary — Im*ag i*na*ry, a. [L. imaginarius: cf. F. imaginaire.] Existing only in imagination or fancy; not real; fancied; visionary; ideal. [1913 Webster] Wilt thou add to all the griefs I suffer Imaginary ills and fancied tortures? Addison. [1913… … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
Imaginary calculus — Imaginary Im*ag i*na*ry, a. [L. imaginarius: cf. F. imaginaire.] Existing only in imagination or fancy; not real; fancied; visionary; ideal. [1913 Webster] Wilt thou add to all the griefs I suffer Imaginary ills and fancied tortures? Addison.… … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
Imaginary expression — Imaginary Im*ag i*na*ry, a. [L. imaginarius: cf. F. imaginaire.] Existing only in imagination or fancy; not real; fancied; visionary; ideal. [1913 Webster] Wilt thou add to all the griefs I suffer Imaginary ills and fancied tortures? Addison.… … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
Imaginary points — Imaginary Im*ag i*na*ry, a. [L. imaginarius: cf. F. imaginaire.] Existing only in imagination or fancy; not real; fancied; visionary; ideal. [1913 Webster] Wilt thou add to all the griefs I suffer Imaginary ills and fancied tortures? Addison.… … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
Imaginary quantity — Imaginary Im*ag i*na*ry, a. [L. imaginarius: cf. F. imaginaire.] Existing only in imagination or fancy; not real; fancied; visionary; ideal. [1913 Webster] Wilt thou add to all the griefs I suffer Imaginary ills and fancied tortures? Addison.… … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
imaginary — imaginary, imaginative Imaginary means ‘existing only in the imagination, not real’, whereas imaginative means ‘having or showing a high degree of imagination’. Both words can be applied to people as well as things; an imaginary person is one who … Modern English usage
