Hyperbolic

Quick meaning: Hyperbolic is an adjective meaning Of or relating to hyperbole.

Meaning

Of or relating to hyperbole.

More Meanings

1. Using hyperbole: exaggerated.
2. (color theory) Of a perceived color, having a saturation exceeding 100%.
3. Of or pertaining to a hyperbola.
4. Indicates that the specified function is a hyperbolic function rather than a trigonometric function.
5. (mathematics, of a metric space or a geometry) Having negative curvature or sectional curvature.
6. (topology) Of, pertaining to, or in a hyperbolic space (a space having negative curvature or sectional curvature).
7. (geometry, topology, of an automorphism) Whose domain has two (possibly ideal) fixed points joined by a line mapped to itself by translation.

Example Sentences

The hyperbolic cosine of zero is one.

A hyperbolic isometry f has two (distinct) fixed points on ∂ℋ.

Exactly one hypercycle is a hyperbolic geodesic, and this is called the axis A_f of f.

In this configuration the on-axis image is produced at the real hyperbolic focus (fₛ₂) but off-axis performance suffers.

Word Forms

• hyperbolical
• hyperbolick

Synonyms for hyperbolic

Depending on context, synonyms include exaggerative, exaggerated, inflated, increased.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include exaggerated, inflated, increased, bell-shaped, paraboloid, cotangent.

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