COMPLEX PLANE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does complex plane mean? 

• COMPLEX PLANE (noun)
  The noun COMPLEX PLANE has 1 sense:

1. 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

  Familiarity information: COMPLEX PLANE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• COMPLEX PLANE (noun)

Sense 1

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

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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)