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UK
/hˌaɪpəbˈɒlɪk/
]
[ US /ˌhaɪpɝˈbɑɫɪk/ ]
[ US /ˌhaɪpɝˈbɑɫɪk/ ]
ADJECTIVE
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of or relating to a hyperbola
hyperbolic functions -
enlarged beyond truth or reasonableness
a hyperbolic style
How To Use hyperbolic In A Sentence
- Clearly the megalosaurus in the opening passage of Bleak House is a flight of hyperbolic fancy (inspired, I would guess, by the papier-mâché dinosaurs constructed for the Crystal Palace Exhibition, a couple of years earlier).
- The authors, both pollsters, will either win plaudits in future years or be forgotten like many hyperbolic, wrong-headed forecasters through the eons. Three books on the Tea Party, reviewed by Steven Levingston
- A corollary to Godwin's Law, and as much of a thread quasher, must be hyperbolic reference to Mandela, Apartheid or the effectiveness / appropriateness of the anti-apartheid movement. Newmatilda.com - Comments
- Whereas hyperbolic activity and elliptic motion characterizes the cab, a big rig manifests an elliptic activity and hyperbolic motion.
- All accompanied by some dodgy spelling and hyperbolic punctuation. Times, Sunday Times
- Debates help them break through the blaze of hyperbolic attacks and confusing countercharges.
- Any object with a parabolic or hyperbolic trajectory moves so fast that it will never return.
- Þ sech x ¼ 2 = ðex þ eÀx Þ coth x ¼ ðex þ eÀx Þ = ðex À eÀx Þ Now let's look at the graphs of the six hyperbolic functions. Recently Uploaded Slideshows
- But it was the subsequent item on hyperbolic crochet that charred the fishcakes beyond redemption. Times, Sunday Times
- According to the data statistics of max transformation aside of pit to time, the paper established 3 typical hyperbolic function of displacement to time (depth).