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hyperbolic | hyperbole |

Hyperbole is a derived term of hyperbolic.



As an adjective hyperbolic

is of or relating to hyperbole.

As a noun hyperbole is

extreme exaggeration or overstatement; especially as a literary or rhetorical device.

hyperbolic

English

Alternative forms

* hyperbolick (obsolete)

Etymology 1

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • of or relating to hyperbole
  • using hyperbole: exaggerated
  • This hyperbolical epitaph. — Fuller.
  • * {{quote-news
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    Etymology 2

    Adjective

    (-)
  • 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]:
  • 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.
  • (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]:
  • There is a universal constant m_0>0 such that every hyperbolic' surface R has an embedded ' hyperbolic disk with radius greater than m_0.
  • (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]:
  • A hyperbolic isometry f has two (distinct) fixed points on \partial\mathcal H.
  • (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]:
  • Exactly one hypercycle is a hyperbolic geodesic, and this is called the axis A_f of f.
    Derived terms
    * * hyperbolic algebra * hyperbolic angle * hyperbolic automorphism * hyperbolic coordinate * hyperbolic cosecant * hyperbolic cosine * hyperbolic cosine integral * hyperbolic cotangent * hyperbolic cube * hyperbolic cylinder * hyperbolic differential equation * hyperbolic discounting * hyperbolic disk * hyperbolic dodecahedron * hyperbolic fixed point * hyperbolic function * hyperbolic geometry * hyperbolic group * hyperbolic growth * hyperbolic helicoid * hyperbolic icosahedron * hyperbolic inverse function * hyperbolic lemniscate function * hyperbolic link * hyperbolic map * hyperbolic metric * hyperbolic motion * hyperbolic navigation system * hyperbolic octahedron * hyperbolic-orthogonal * hyperbolic orbit * hyperbolic paraboloid * hyperbolic partial differential equation * hyperbolic plane * hyperbolic point * hyperbolic polar sine * hyperbolic polyhedron * hyperbolic polynomial * hyperbolic quaternion * hyperbolic rotation * hyperbolic secant * hyperbolic secant distribution * hyperbolic sector * hyperbolic set * hyperbolic sine * hyperbolic sine integral * hyperbolic small dodecahedral honeycomb * hyperbolic space * hyperbolic tangent * hyperbolic tetrahedron * hyperbolic time chamber * hyperbolic trajectory * hyperbolic triangle * hyperbolic umbilic catastrophe * hyperboloid * quasihyperbolic * subhyperbolic * superhyperbolic

    hyperbole

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (uncountable) Extreme exaggeration or overstatement; especially as a literary or rhetorical device.
  • (uncountable) Deliberate exaggeration.
  • (countable) An instance or example of this technique.
  • (countable, obsolete) A hyperbola.
  • Quotations

    {{timeline, 1600s=1602, 1800s=1837 1841 1843, 1900s=1910, 2000s=2001}} * 1602 — i 3 *: ...and when he speaks
    'Tis like a chime a-mending; with terms unsquar'd,
    Which, from the tongue of roaring Typhon dropp'd,
    Would seem hyperboles . * 1837 — *: The great staircase, however, may be termed, without much hyperbole , a feature of grandeur and magnificence. * 1841 — , ch. 28 *: "Nay - nay - good Sumach," interrupted Deerslayer, whose love of truth was too indomitable to listen to such hyperbole with patience. * 1843 — *: The honourable gentleman forces us to hear a good deal of this detestable rhetoric; and then he asks why, if the secretaries of the Nizam and the King of Oude use all these tropes and hyperboles , Lord Ellenborough should not indulge in the same sort of eloquence? * c.1910 — *: Of course the hymn has come to us from somewhere else, but I do not know from where; and the average native of our village firmly believes that it is indigenous to our own soil—which it can not be, unless it deals in hyperbole , for the nearest approach to a river in our neighborhood is the village pond. * 2001 - Tom Bentley, Daniel Stedman Jones, The Moral Universe *: The perennial problem, especially for the BBC, has been to reconcile the hyperbole -driven agenda of newspapers with the requirement of balance, which is crucial to the public service remit.

    Synonyms

    * overstatement * exaggeration

    Antonyms

    * meiosis * understatement

    Derived terms

    * hyperbolic

    See also

    * adynaton ----