hyperbolic
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- adjective
- /haɪˈpɜːrbəlɪk/
- Specialized
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hiperbólico
- Leo I, on the other hand, is in an unbound hyperbolic orbit, flying past the Milky Way on its way out of the Local Group.
- hyperbolic tangent
- hyperbolic decline
- hyperbolic tangent model
If they diverge at a constant rate, you get a saddle or hyperbolic or negatively curved geometry.
- If they diverge at a constant rate, you get a saddle or hyperbolic or negatively curved geometry.
- Large, large, large classes of manifolds are actually hyperbolic.
Examples
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Bits of continents poked through the gaps as the air packet swung out on a hyperbolic curve.
Fiction book (2000) -
The relationship between growth rate and concentration of a limiting nutrient can be described by a hyperbolic function (Figure 3).
Academic text (1993) -
The thing was on a hyperbolic trajectory through the Solar System.
Fiction book (1998) -
And so these pieces inside the Mandelbrot set, they come from these hyperbolic values of C.
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So let's find, for example, the hyperbolic tangent.
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So we'll do that by adding hyperbolic sine squared of X to both sides.
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So to scientists analyzing this strange new body, a hyperbolic orbit meant one thing.
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So we called this first one here an elliptic cone, and we're going to call our second one a hyperbolic paraboloid.
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Iris' orbit is hyperbolic.
Fiction book (1990) -
In mathematics, a hyperbolic function relates to curves that resemble a hyperbola.
Synonyms
A curved shape used in math and in some towers
Compounds
- Specialized
A kind of geometry where space curves so the angles in a triangle add to less than 180 degrees
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Hyperbolic comes from the Greek name hyperbola, formed from hyper- 'over' and a part that meant 'to throw', giving the image of something 'thrown beyond' or stretched out. In math, hyperbolic describes the shapes and functions related to the wide, open curve called a hyperbola.