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Hyperbola

💡 Words with a Similar Meaning to "Hyperbola"

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Word	Definition
hyperbolic planenoun	(mathematics) A topological space homeomorphic to a plane (or open disk) and equipped with a hyperbolic metric.
hyperbolic sectornoun	(geometry) An area on a plane bounded by two rays from the origin and a rectangular hyperbola.
hyperbolic anglenoun	(geometry) An angle that describes a position along a hyperbola.
parabolanoun	(geometry) The conic section formed by the intersection of a cone with a plane parallel to a tangent plane to the cone; the locus of points equidistant from a fixed point (the focus) and line (the directrix).
hypercyclenoun	(chemistry) A system of self-replicating molecules, as an explanation for the self-organization of prebiotic systems.
hyperellipsenoun	(geometry) A superellipse: a curve in two dimensions of a certain type, a generalization of the ellipse.
hyperbolic geometrynoun	(geometry) A non-Euclidean geometry, that features the hyperbola as geodesic, and has constant negative curvature
hyperboloid of revolutionnoun	(geometry) The surface generated by rotating a hyperbola around one of its principal axes.
rectangular hyperbolanoun	(mathematics) A hyperbola where the two asymptotes intersect at a right angle.
conic sectionnoun	(geometry) Any of the four distinct shapes that are the intersections of a cone with a plane, namely the circle, ellipse, parabola and hyperbola.
equilateral hyperbolanoun	A hyperbola with perpendicular asymptotes.
hyperconenoun	(geometry) A four-dimensional surface related to the three-dimensional cone
hyperballnoun	(geometry) The set of all points that make up a hypersphere.
hyperbolismnoun	(uncountable) The use of hyperbole
hyperellipsoidnoun	(geometry) A figure, related to the hypersphere, having ellipsoidal rather than spherical symmetry
hypercuspnoun	(geometry) A singularity of a curve of some multiplicity r whose tangent cone is a single line meeting the curve with order r+1.
hyperfacenoun	(geometry) A hyperplane that forms a boundary of a polytope
horocyclenoun	(geometry) A curve in hyperbolic geometry whose normals all converge asymptotically.
conoidnoun	Anything shaped like a cone
gyrotrigonometrynoun	(hyperbolic geometry) The use of gyroconcepts to study hyperbolic triangles.