hyperbolic
Of or relating to hyperbole.
Adjective not comparable
- Of or pertaining to a hyperbola.
- In this configuration the on-axis image is produced at the real hyperbolic focus (fₛ₂) but off-axis performance suffers. - 1988, R. F. Leftwich, "Wide-Band Radiation Thermometers", chapter 7 of, David P. DeWitt and Gene...
Coordinate Terms: parabolic
- Indicates that the specified function is a hyperbolic function rather than a trigonometric function.
- The hyperbolic cosine of zero is one.
- Having negative curvature or sectional curvature.
- There is a universal constant m_0>0 such that every hyperbolic surface R has an embedded hyperbolic disk with radius greater than m_0. - 1998, Katsuhiko Matsuzaki and Masahiko Taniguchi, Hyperbolic Manifolds and...
- Whose domain has two (possibly ideal) fixed points joined by a line mapped to itself by translation.
- A hyperbolic isometry f has two (distinct) fixed points on ∂ℋ. - 2001, A. F. Beardon, "The Geometry of Riemann Surfaces", in, E. Bujalance, A. F. Costa, and E. Martínez, editors, Topics on Riemann Surfaces and Fuchsian...
- Of, pertaining to, or in a hyperbolic space (a space having negative curvature or sectional curvature).
- Exactly one hypercycle is a hyperbolic geodesic, and this is called the axis A_f of f. - 2001, A. F. Beardon, "The Geometry of Riemann Surfaces", in, E. Bujalance, A. F. Costa, and E. Martínez, editors, Topics on...
Origin
First attested in 1676. By surface analysis, hyperbol(a) + -ic.
Forms
Derived
antihyperbolic arc-hyperbolic function hyperbolic 3-manifold hyperbolic algebra hyperbolically hyperbolic angle hyperbolic automorphism hyperbolic color hyperbolic colour hyperbolic coordinate hyperbolic cosecant hyperbolic cosine hyperbolic cosine integral hyperbolic cotangent hyperbolic cube hyperbolic cylinder hyperbolic differential equation hyperbolic discounting hyperbolic disk hyperbolic dodecahedron hyperbolic fixed point hyperbolic function hyperbolic geometry hyperbolic group
Adjective Entry 2
- Of or relating to hyperbole.
- Using hyperbole: exaggerated.
- At the risk of being slightly hyperbolic, the fourth season of The Simpsons is the greatest thing in the history of the universe. - 2012 May 20, Nathan Rabin, “TV: Review: THE SIMPSONS (CLASSIC): “Marge Gets A Job”...
Synonyms: exaggerative
- Of a perceived color, having a saturation exceeding 100%.
- Using the techniques already explored, we can contrive to activate a coding triplet in any one of those four extremal corners. If one fixates at length on a pale blue-green stimulus, as in Figure 18, and then refixates...
Hypernyms: chimerical
Coordinate Terms: self-luminous stygian
Origin
From Latin hyperbolic(us), from Ancient Greek ὑπερβολικός (huperbolikós). First attested in the 15th century. By surface analysis, hyperbol(e) + -ic.