Hyperbolic Definition

hīpər-bŏlĭk
adjective
Of, having the nature of, or using hyperbole; exaggerated or exaggerating.
Webster's New World
Of, or having the form of, a hyperbola.
Webster's New World
Of or relating to a geometric system in which two or more lines can be drawn through any point in a plane and not intersect a given line in the plane.
American Heritage
Designating or of any of a set of six functions (hyperbolic sine, hyperbolic cosine, etc.) related to the hyperbola in a manner similar to that by which the trigonometric functions are related to the circle.
Webster's New World

(mathematics, of a metric space or a geometry) Having negative curvature or sectional curvature.

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  • In such a society the only way in which discourse can be used for one's social advancement is by making increasingly hyperbolic statements.

  • Although the notion of 1 million writing prompts sounds hyperbolic, it's actually an understatement.

  • The largest hyperbolic table as regards range was published by Zacharias Dase at Vienna in 1850 under the title Tafel der natiirlichen Logarithmen der Zahlen.

  • And we thus see that the two hyperbolic legs belong to a simple intersection of the curve by the line infinity.

  • The epithets hyperbolic and parabolic are of course derived from the conic hyperbola and parabola respectively.

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