LekhoriLekhoriHaving no real part; that part of a complex number which is a multiple of √ (called imaginary unit).
Imagination; fancy.
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.
An imaginary number.
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.
From Middle English ymaginarie, ymagynary, from Latin imāginārius (“relating to images, fancied”), from imāgō, equivalent to imagine + -ary. The mathematical sense derives from René Descartes's use (o...
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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 […].