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complex plane

American  

noun

Mathematics.
  1. a plane the points of which are complex numbers.


Etymology

Origin of complex plane

First recorded in 1905–10

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Sure, startups can and do disrupt established industries, but manufacturing such a complex plane on budget and on time to keep down the price per passenger requires more than entrepreneurial brashness.

From Seattle Times • Aug. 22, 2022

TRY IT #1 Plot the point in the complex plane.

From Textbooks • Feb. 13, 2015

Not merely a recipe for cute pictures, the paper is an extension of Thurston and Dennis Sullivan’s work connecting the behavior of iterations of rational functions in the complex plane to advanced topics in geometry.

From Scientific American • Sep. 26, 2012

He painted this complex plane, with its traceries, sculptures, pilasters and sunken portals jutting out and receding, 28 times, after first painting two close-ups of the Tour Saint Romain, one of the two western towers.

From Washington Post

In the old days, before Riemann saw that the complex plane was really a sphere, functions like 1/x would stump mathematicians.

From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife