complex plane
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of complex plane
First recorded in 1905–10
Example Sentences
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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
We use the complex plane, which is a coordinate system in which the horizontal axis represents the real component and the vertical axis represents the imaginary component.
From Textbooks • Feb. 13, 2015
For our 2 example, then, the Julia set isn’t just the number 1—it’s a circle in the complex plane with a radius of one.
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
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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