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COMPLEX PLANE
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I. (noun)
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Meaning:
A geometric representation of the complex numbers established by the real axis and the orthogonal imaginary axis; it can be thought of as a modified Cartesian plane, with the real part of a complex number represented by a displacement along the x-axis, and the imaginary part by a displacement along the y-axis
Classified under:
Nouns denoting two and three dimensional shapes
Hypernyms ("complex plane" is a kind of...):
Cartesian plane (a plane in which all points can be described in Cartesian coordinates)