complex plane

American  

noun

Mathematics.

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

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Etymology

Origin of complex plane

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

This simple construction, called the complex plane, revealed a lot about the way numbers work.

From Literature

Multiplication and exponentiation in the complex plane became geometric ideas; you could actually see them happening.

From Literature

Riemann imagined a translucent ball sitting atop the complex plane, with the south pole of the ball touching zero.

From Literature