HYPERBOLIC

hyperbolic

Adjective

  1. of or relating to hyperbole
  2. using hyperbole: exaggerated
    This hyperbolical epitaph. — Fuller.

Adjective (etymology 2)

  1. Of or pertaining to an hyperbola.
    The hyperbolic cosine of zero is one.
  2. Having negative curvature or sectional curvature.
  3. Whose domain has two (possibly ideal) fixed points joined by a line mapped to itself by translation.
  4. Of, pertaining to or in a hyperbolic space .


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