HYPERBOLA
\ha͡ɪpˈɜːbələ], \haɪpˈɜːbələ], \h_aɪ_p_ˈɜː_b_ə_l_ə]\
Definitions of HYPERBOLA
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
- 1790 - A Complete Dictionary of the English Language
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A curve formed by a section of a cone, when the cutting plane makes a greater angle with the base than the side of the cone makes. It is a plane curve such that the difference of the distances from any point of it to two fixed points, called foci, is equal to a given distance. See Focus. If the cutting plane be produced so as to cut the opposite cone, another curve will be formed, which is also an hyperbola. Both curves are regarded as branches of the same hyperbola. See Illust. of Conic section, and Focus.
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A curve formed by a section of a cone, when the cutting plane makes a greater angle with the base than the side of the cone makes. It is a plane curve such that the difference of the distances from any point of it to two fixed points, called foci, is equal to a given distance. See Focus. If the cutting plane be produced so as to cut the opposite cone, another curve will be formed, which is also an hyperbola. Both curves are regarded as branches of the same hyperbola. See Illust. of Conic section, and Focus.
By Noah Webster.
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A curve formed by the section of a cone when the cutting plane makes a greater angle with the base than is made by the surface of the cone.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
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(geom.) One of the conic sections or curves formed when the intersecting plane makes a greater angle with the base than the side of the cone makes.
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HYPERBOLICALLY.
By Daniel Lyons
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Geom. The figure formed when two cones, placed vertex to vertex, are cut by a plane that passes through them both.
By James Champlin Fernald
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