imaginary axis
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of imaginary axis
First recorded in 1700–05
Example Sentences
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Label the x-axis as the real axis and the y-axis as the imaginary axis.
From Textbooks ● Feb. 13, 2015
The horizontal axis is the real axis, and the vertical axis is the imaginary axis.
From Textbooks ● Feb. 13, 2015
The line POP′ is the imaginary axis about which the star-sphere appears to revolve, and P and P′ are the poles of the heavens.
From Astronomical Lore in Chaucer by Grimm, Florence M.
The column of light is not the Milky Way—which is neither straight, nor like a rainbow—but the imaginary axis of the earth.
From The Republic by Jowett, Benjamin
Purkinje noticed that the position of the imaginary axis of rotation depends on the axis around which the head revolves.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 7 "Equation" to "Ethics" by Various
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