Definitions for hyperbola

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hyperbola hy·per·bo·la

Spelling: [hahy-pur-buh-luh]

IPA: /haɪˈpɜr bə lə/

Hyperbola is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 20 points.

You can make 497 anagrams from letters in hyperbola (abehlopry).

Definitions for hyperbola

noun

1. the set of points in a plane whose distances to two fixed points in the plane have a constant difference; a curve consisting of two distinct and similar branches, formed by the intersection of a plane with a right circular cone when the plane makes a greater angle with the base than does the generator of the cone. Equation: x 2/a 2 − y 2/b 2 = ±1.

Origin of hyperbola

1660-70; New Latin Greek hyperbolḗ the geometrical term, literally, excess. See hyperbole

Examples for hyperbola

An oval is never mistaken for a circle, nor an hyperbola for an ellipsis.

Two of the sides of the triangle in this proposition constitute a special form of the hyperbola.

With a certain speed it will assume the parabola, and with a greater the hyperbola.

The axes of an hyperbola bisect the angles between the asymptotes.

If the cone is cut off vertically on the dotted line, A, the curve is a hyperbola.

Similarly, in an hyperbola a vertex is nearer 704 to the directrix than to the focus.

The curve is in this case called an hyperbola (see fig. 20).

If the plane tips the slightest amount more, the section becomes an hyperbola.

I said, "if my orbit is a hyperbola, I shall never return to earth."

In the hyperbola we have the mathematical demonstration of the error of an axiom.