💡 Words with a Similar Meaning to "Complex number"
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| Word | Definition |
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| imaginary numbernoun | (complex analysis, broad sense) A number of the form a + bi, where a and b are real numbers and b is nonzero. |
| complex quantitynoun | a number of the form a+bi where a and b are real numbers and i is the square root of -1 |
| imaginary partnoun | (complex analysis) Of a complex number a + bi, where a and b are real numbers, the value b. |
| real partnoun | (complex analysis) Of a complex number a + bi, the value a. |
| purely imaginary numbernoun | (complex analysis) An imaginary number. |
| complex conjugatenoun | (mathematics) Of a complex number x, the complex number ◌̅x formed by changing the sign of the imaginary part: The complex conjugate of a + bi is a - bi. |
| imaginary unitnoun | (number theory, complex analysis, quaternion theory) An imaginary number (in the case of complex numbers, usually denoted i) that is defined as a solution to the equation x²=-1. |
| complexnoun | A network of interconnected systems. |
| gaussian integernoun | (algebra) Any complex number of the form a + bi, where a and b are integers. |
| hypercomplex numbernoun | (mathematics) Any of several types of extended complex number, consisting of a real part and two or more imaginary parts (each a real multiple of a distinct square root of −1), which may be imagined as a point in a multi-dimensional space. |
| bicomplex numbernoun | (algebra) A pair (w,z) of complex numbers constructed by the Cayley–Dickson process that defines the bicomplex conjugate (w,z)^*=(w,-z), and the product of two bicomplex numbers as (u,v)(w,z)=(uw-vz,uz+vw). |
| absolute valuenoun | (mathematics) For a complex number a+bi, the principal square root of the sum of the squares of its real and imaginary parts, √. Denoted by vertical bars |,|. |
| affixnoun | (linguistic morphology) A bound morpheme added to a word’s stem, such as a prefix or suffix. |
| split-complex numbernoun | (mathematics) An element of the two-dimensional algebra over the field of real numbers which contains an element ȷ ≠ 1 satisfying ȷ² = 1. |
| bicharacternoun | (mathematics) A type of bilinear complex number |
| complex conjugationnoun | (mathematics) The unary operation which maps complex numbers to their complex conjugates. |
| imaginary | Existing only in the imagination. |
| conjugatenoun | (algebra, of a complex number) A complex conjugate. |
| negabicomplex | (mathematics) Related to a bicomplex value by a power of -1. |
| hypercomplexnoun | (mathematics) A hypercomplex number. |
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