hyperbolic
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hyperbolic¹
- /ˌhaɪ.pɚˈbɔl.ɪk/ US
Rhymes with -ɒlɪk
Where it comes from
From Latin hyperbolic(us), from Ancient Greek ὑπερβολικός (huperbolikós). First attested in the 15th century. By surface analysis, hyperbol(e) + -ic.
adjective more hyperbolic · most hyperbolic · hyperbolical · hyperbolick
- Of or relating to hyperbole.
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Using hyperbole: exaggerated.
At the risk of being slightly hyperbolic, the fourth season of The Simpsons is the greatest thing in the history of the universe.
Similar: exaggerative
- Of a perceived color, having a saturation exceeding 100%. Using the techniques already explored, we can contrive to activate a coding triplet in any one of those four extremal corners. If one fixates at length on a pale blue-green stimulus, as in Figure 18, and then refixates on an already maximally saturated orange surface, then the resituated f/p vector
hyperbolic²
- /ˌhaɪ.pɚˈbɔl.ɪk/ US
Rhymes with -ɒlɪk
Where it comes from
First attested in 1676. By surface analysis, hyperbol(a) + -ic.
adjective hyperbolical · hyperbolick
- Of or pertaining to a hyperbola. In this configuration the on-axis image is produced at the real hyperbolic focus (fₛ₂) but off-axis performance suffers.
- Indicates that the specified function is a hyperbolic function rather than a trigonometric function. The hyperbolic cosine of zero is one.
- Having negative curvature or sectional curvature. 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.
- Whose domain has two (possibly ideal) fixed points joined by a line mapped to itself by translation. A hyperbolic isometry f has two (distinct) fixed points on ∂ℋ.
- Of, pertaining to, or in a hyperbolic space (a space having negative curvature or sectional curvature). Exactly one hypercycle is a hyperbolic geodesic, and this is called the axis A_f of f.
Thesaurus
Closest in meaning: exaggerated, inflated, increased, bell-shaped, paraboloid, cotangent, paraboloids, hyperbatic, hyperarithmetical, hyperkyphotic, hypergraphic, hypercarbic, hypercyclic, hyperoxic, hypercatabolic, hypertrophic
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adj exaggerated
| Español | hiperbólico |
|---|---|
| Português | hiperbólico |
| Français | hyperbolique |
| Deutsch | hyperbolisch, übertrieben |
| Italiano | iperbolico |
| Русский | гиперболи́ческий giperbolíčeskij, преувели́ченный preuvelíčennyj |
adj pertaining to a mathematical hyperbola
| Español | hiperbólico |
|---|---|
| हिन्दी | अतिपरवलयिक atipravalyik |
| Português | hiperbólico |
| Français | hyperbolique |
| Deutsch | hyperbolisch |
| Русский | гиперболи́ческий giperbolíčeskij |
Talk about this word "hyperbolic." Wiktionary, via Micwyn, micwyn.com/word/hyperbolic. Accessed 6 Nov. 2026. hyperbolic. (n.d.). In Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Retrieved November 6, 2026, from https://micwyn.com/word/hyperbolic "hyperbolic." Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Accessed November 6, 2026. https://micwyn.com/word/hyperbolic.Cite this
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title = {hyperbolic},
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