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  • 1imaginary — adj 1 Imaginary, fanciful, visionary, fantastic, chimerical, quixotic are comparable when they are applied to conceptions or to the persons who form the conceptions and mean unreal or unbelievable and out of keeping with things as they are or… …

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  • 2Imaginary number — In mathematics, an imaginary number (or purely imaginary number) is a complex number whose squared value is a real number not greater than zero.Ahlfors, Lars V. Complex Analysis. 3rd Ed. New York: McGraw Hill, 1979. Pages 1 4.] The imaginary unit …

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  • 3Quater-imaginary base — The quater imaginary numeral system was first proposed by Donald Knuth in 1955, in a submission to a high school science talent search. It is a non standard positional numeral system which uses the imaginary number, 2 i , as its base. By analogy… …

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  • 4Non-standard positional numeral systems — Numeral systems by culture Hindu Arabic numerals Western Arabic (Hindu numerals) Eastern Arabic Indian family Tamil Burmese Khmer Lao Mongolian Thai East Asian numerals Chinese Japanese Suzhou Korean Vietnamese …

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  • 5Three Imaginary Boys — Studio album by The Cure Released 11 May 1979 …

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  • 6Non-standard analysis — Abraham Robinson Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz argued tha …

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  • 7Non-standard poker hand — Non standard poker hands are hands which are not recognized by official poker rules but are created by house rules. Non standard hands usually appear in games using wild cards or bugs. Other terms for nonstandard hands are special hands or freak… …

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  • 8Ideal — I*de al, a. [L. idealis: cf. F. id[ e]al.] 1. Existing in idea or thought; conceptional; intellectual; mental; as, ideal knowledge. [1913 Webster] 2. Reaching an imaginary standard of excellence; fit for a model; faultless; as, ideal beauty.… …

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  • 9ideal — I. a. 1. Intellectual, mental. 2. Imaginary, unreal, fanciful, fantastic, fancied, illusory, chimerical, visionary, shadowy. 3. Complete, perfect, consummate, filling our utmost conceptions. II. n. Imaginary standard, ideal model of perfection …

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  • 10dialect — [dī′ə lekt΄] n. [L dialectus < Gr dialektos, discourse, discussion, dialect < dialegesthai, to discourse, talk < dia, between (see DIA ) + legein, to choose, talk (see LOGIC)] 1. the sum total of local characteristics of speech 2. Rare… …

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