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complex variable
noun
, Mathematics.
- a variable to which complex numbers may be assigned as value.
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Word History and Origins
Origin of complex variable1
First recorded in 1875–80
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Example Sentences
He went off into a happy mist of quantum mechanics, oscillation theory, and periodic functions of a complex variable.
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