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
To plot a complex number, we use two number lines, crossed to form 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
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
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