Hyperbola Definition

hī-pûrbə-lə
hyperbolae, hyperbolas
noun
The path of a point that moves so that the difference of its distances from two fixed points, the foci, is constant; curve formed by the section of a cone cut by a plane more steeply inclined than the side of the cone.
Webster's New World

Other Word Forms of Hyperbola

Noun

Singular:
hyperbola
Plural:
hyperbol, hyperbolae, hyperbolas

Origin of Hyperbola

  • New Latin from Greek huperbolē a throwing beyond, excess (from the relationship between the line joining the vertices of a conic and the line through its focus and parallel to its directrix) hyperbole

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • From Ancient Greek ὑπερβολή (huperbolē).

    From Wiktionary

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