HYPERBOLE
\ha͡ɪpˈɜːbəlˌi], \haɪpˈɜːbəlˌi], \h_aɪ_p_ˈɜː_b_ə_l_ˌi]\
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By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
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A rhetorical figure which produces a vivid impression by representing things as much greater or less than they really are: an exaggeration.
By Daniel Lyons
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Hyperbolie, hyperbolical.
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Rhetorical exaggeration.
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
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Procollagen Proline Dioxygenase
- mixed-function oxygenase that catalyzes hydroxylation prolyl-glycyl-containing-peptide, usually in protocollagen, hydroxyprolylglycyl-peptide. The enzyme utilizes molecular oxygen with a concomitant oxidative decarboxylation of 2-oxoglutarate to succinate. EC 1.14.11.2.