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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

The Riemann zeta function is the analytic continuation of this function to the whole complex plane minus the point s=1.

From Scientific American • Jan. 20, 2014

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

However, Poncelet had no idea that projective geometry would reveal the mysterious nature of zero, because the second important advance, the complex plane, was still needed.

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

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