complex plane

noun

Mathematics.

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

Word History and Origins

Origin of complex plane¹

First recorded in 1905–10

Example Sentences

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

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

Every point on the ball has a shadow on the complex plane; in a sense, every point on the ball is equivalent to its shadow on the plane and vice versa.

From Literature

All numbers in the complex plane suffer this fate.

From Literature

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

From Literature