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Melodramatic vs Hyperbolic - What's the difference?

melodramatic | hyperbolic |

As adjectives the difference between melodramatic and hyperbolic

is that melodramatic is of or pertaining to melodrama; like or suitable to a melodrama; unnatural in situation or action while hyperbolic is of or relating to hyperbole.

melodramatic

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Of or pertaining to melodrama; like or suitable to a melodrama; unnatural in situation or action.
  • Exaggeratedly emotional or sentimental.
    • She wrote him a melodramatic letter, threatening to kill herself.
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    • Related terms

    * melodramatics

    hyperbolic

    English

    Alternative forms

    * hyperbolick (obsolete)

    Etymology 1

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • of or relating to hyperbole
  • using hyperbole: exaggerated
    • This hyperbolical epitaph. — Fuller.
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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