Hyperbolic vs Bombastic - What's the difference?
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of or relating to hyperbole
using hyperbole: exaggerated
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Of or pertaining to a hyperbola.
* 1988 , R. F. Leftwich, "Wide-Band Radiation Thermometers", chapter 7 of, David P. DeWitt and Gene D. Nutter, editors, Theory and Practice of Radiation Thermometry , ISBN 0471610186, page 512 [http://books.google.com/books?id=SZ6Ldatd7OAC&pg=PA512&dq=hyperbolic]:
(mathematics, of a, metric space, or, a geometry) Having negative curvature or sectional curvature.
* 1998', Katsuhiko Matsuzaki and Masahiko Taniguchi, '''''Hyperbolic Manifolds and Kleinian Groups , 2002 reprint, , ISBN 0198500629, page 8, proposition 0.10 [http://books.google.com/books?id=DLAGEBfEgEUC&pg=PA8&dq=hyperbolic]:
(geometry, topology, of an automorphism) Whose domain has two (possibly ideal) fixed points joined by a line mapped to itself by translation.
* 2001 , A. F. Beardon, "The Geometry of Riemann Surfaces", in, E. Bujalance, A. F. Costa and E. Martínez, editors, Topics on Riemann Surfaces and Fuchsian Groups , , ISBN 0521003504, page 6 [http://books.google.com/books?id=RjbQdcP7DgwC&pg=PA6&dq=hyperbolic]:
(topology) Of, pertaining to or in a hyperbolic space (a space having negative curvature or sectional curvature).
* 2001 , A. F. Beardon, "The Geometry of Riemann Surfaces", in, E. Bujalance, A. F. Costa and E. Martínez, editors, Topics on Riemann Surfaces and Fuchsian Groups , , ISBN 0521003504, page 6 [http://books.google.com/books?id=RjbQdcP7DgwC&pg=PA6&dq=hyperbolic]:
showy in speech and given to using flowery or elaborate terms; grandiloquent; pompous
High-sounding but with little meaning.
(archaic) Inflated, overfilled.
As adjectives the difference between hyperbolic and bombastic
is that hyperbolic is of or relating to hyperbole or hyperbolic can be of or pertaining to a hyperbola while bombastic is showy in speech and given to using flowery or elaborate terms; grandiloquent; pompous.hyperbolic
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Alternative forms
* hyperbolick (obsolete)Etymology 1
Adjective
(en adjective)- This hyperbolical epitaph. — Fuller.
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Etymology 2
Adjective
(-)- In this configuration the on-axis image is produced at the real hyperbolic focus (fs2) but off-axis performance suffers.
- The hyperbolic cosine of zero is one.
- There is a universal constant such that every hyperbolic' surface has an embedded ' hyperbolic disk with radius greater than .
- A hyperbolic isometry has two (distinct) fixed points on .
- Exactly one hypercycle is a hyperbolic geodesic, and this is called the axis of .