different between imaginary vs impracticable
imaginary
English
Etymology
From Middle French imaginaire, from Latin im?gin?rius (“relating to images, fancied”), from im?g?.
The mathematical sense derives from René Descartes's use (of the French imaginaire) in 1637, La Geometrie, to ridicule the notion of regarding non-real roots of polynomials as numbers. Although Descartes' usage was derogatory, the designation stuck even after the concept gained acceptance in the 18th century.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /??mæd??n(?)?i/
- (General American) IPA(key): /??mæd???n??i/
Adjective
imaginary (comparative more imaginary, superlative most imaginary)
- Existing only in the imagination.
- Wilt thou add to all the griefs I suffer / Imaginary ills and fancied tortures?
- (mathematics, of a number) Having no real part; that part of a complex number which is a multiple of (called imaginary unit).
Synonyms
- (existing only in the imagination): all in one's head
Derived terms
- imaginarily
- imaginariness
- imaginarity
- imaginary number
- imaginary unit
Translations
Noun
imaginary (plural imaginaries)
- Imagination; fancy. [from 16th c.]
- 2002, Colin Jones, The Great Nation, Penguin 2003, p. 324:
- By then too Mozart's opera, from Da Ponte's libretto, had made Figaro a stock character in the European imaginary and set the whole Continent whistling Mozartian airs and chuckling at Figaresque humour.
- 2002, Colin Jones, The Great Nation, Penguin 2003, p. 324:
- (mathematics) An imaginary quantity. [from 18th c.]
- (sociology) The set of values, institutions, laws, and symbols common to a particular social group and the corresponding society through which people imagine their social whole.
References
imaginary From the web:
- what imaginary line
- what imaginary lines are based on the equator
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impracticable
English
Etymology
From im- +? practicable.
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /?m?p?akt?k?b(?)l/
Adjective
impracticable (comparative more impracticable, superlative most impracticable)
- not practicable; impossible or difficult in practice
- Antonym: practicable
- (of a passage or road) impassable
- (obsolete, of a person or thing) unmanageable
Derived terms
Translations
Noun
impracticable (plural impracticables)
- (obsolete) an unmanageable person
Spanish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /imp?a?ti?kable/, [?m.p?a??.t?i?ka.??le]
Adjective
impracticable (plural impracticables)
- impracticable
impracticable From the web:
- what impracticable means
- what does impractical mean
- what does impracticable mean in law
- what does impractical mean in history
- what does impractical mean in english
- what do impracticable mean
- what does commercially impracticable mean
- definition impracticable
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