hyperbola

About 0.25 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. noun A conic section formed by the intersection of a cone with a plane that intersects the base of the cone and is not tangent to the cone. The function y(x) = 1/x draws a hyperbola.

Similar words

hyperbolic plane hyperbolic sector hyperbolic angle parabola hypercycle hyperellipse hyperbolic geometry hyperboloid of revolution rectangular hyperbola conic section

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Word family

hyperbolae hyperbolas