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US
/haɪˈpɝbəɫə/
]
[ UK /haɪpˈɜːbəlɐ/ ]
[ UK /haɪpˈɜːbəlɐ/ ]
NOUN
- an open curve formed by a plane that cuts the base of a right circular cone
How To Use hyperbola In A Sentence
- It feels as if all that laughter's going in a hyperbola above my head, with one of them sitting behind me and the other directly before me.
- The right of the two diagrams shows how this hyperbola can be used to trisect the angle AOB.
- Angeli's many works were on infinitesimals and he used them to study spirals, parabolas and hyperbolas.
- Idipfum evidentitts etiam conflabit, ù defcriptae hyperbolae definiantur afymptoti. De funium tensione ...
- There are three non-degenerate conics: the ellipse, the parabola, and the hyperbola.
- The solutions to the equations describing the motions produced by this law are called conic sections - ellipses, hyperbolae and parabolae - which you get by intersecting a plane and a cone.
- Menaechmus is famed for his discovery of the conic sections and he was the first to show that ellipses, parabolas, and hyperbolas are obtained by cutting a cone in a plane not parallel to the base.
- This function is a hyperbola in the valid domain for plant growth.
- [230] The title proceeds: _Seu duae mediae proportionales inter extremas datas per circulum et per infinitas hyperbolas, vel ellipses et per quamlibet exhibitae_ .... A Budget of Paradoxes, Volume I (of II)
- As usual, what will remain in the public domain are the lies and hyperbolae, not the actual truth, once it has all settled down. Cthulhu Explains it All