Hyperbolic

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  • adjective. Of, relating to, or employing hyperbole.
  • adjective. undefined
  • adjective. Of, relating to, or having the form of a hyperbola.
  • adjective. 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.
  • adjective. Of or relating to a hyperbolic function.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Pertaining to or of the nature of hyperbole; obviously exaggerating or exaggerated.
  • Pertaining to or of the nature of the hyperbola.
  • Having a pair of real points at infinity. Thus, hyperbolic space is so called beacause in it every right line has two real points at infinity; so hyperbolic transformation, substitution, etc.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adjective. Belonging to the hyperbola; having the nature of the hyperbola.
  • adjective. Relating to, containing, or of the nature of, hyperbole; exaggerating or diminishing beyond the fact; exceeding the truth.
  • adjective. certain functions which have relations to the hyperbola corresponding to those which sines, cosines, tangents, etc., have to the circle; and hence, called hyperbolic sines, hyperbolic cosines, etc.
  • adjective. See Logarithm.
  • adjective. a spiral curve, the law of which is, that the distance from the pole to the generating point varies inversely as the angle swept over by the radius vector.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adjective. of or relating to hyperbole
  • adjective. using hyperbole: exaggerated
  • adjective. Of or pertaining to an hyperbola.
  • adjective. Indicates that the specified function is a hyperbolic function rather than a trigonometric function.
  • adjective. Having negative curvature or sectional curvature.
  • adjective. Whose domain has two (possibly ideal) fixed points joined by a line mapped to itself by translation.
  • adjective. Of, pertaining to, or in a hyperbolic space (a space having negative curvature or sectional curvature).
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • adjective. enlarged beyond truth or reasonableness
  • adjective. of or relating to a hyperbola
  • Word Usage
    "But In regards to our dialog and you attaching arguments to me that I did not make while engaging in hyperbolic statements addressed to me, I can."
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