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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]:
The colonial domination policy pursued by the powers of Europe, from the second half of the XIX century to the years following World War II. A colonial system.
A colonial linguistic expression. Term or expression of colonial origin entered in a language.
Colonial life.
As an adjective hyperbolic
is of or relating to hyperbole or hyperbolic can be of or pertaining to a hyperbola.As a noun colonialism is
the colonial domination policy pursued by the powers of europe, from the second half of the xix century to the years following world war ii a colonial system.hyperbolic
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* 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 .