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hy⋅per⋅bol⋅ic

  [hahy-per-bol-ik]
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–adjective
1. having the nature of hyperbole; exaggerated.
2. using hyperbole; exaggerating.
3. Mathematics.
a. of or pertaining to a hyperbola.
b. derived from a hyperbola, as a hyperbolic function.
Also, hy⋅per⋅bol⋅i⋅cal.

Origin:
1640–50; hyperbole or hyperbol(a) + -ic

Related forms:
hy⋅per⋅bol⋅i⋅cal⋅ly, adverb
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hy·per·bol·ic   (hī'pər-bŏl'ĭk)   
adj.  
  1. Of, relating to, or employing hyperbole.
  2. Mathematics
    1. Of, relating to, or having the form of a hyperbola.
    2. Of or relating to a geometric system in which two or more lines can be drawn through any point in a plane and not intersect a given line in the plane.
    3. Of or relating to a hyperbolic function: hyperbolic cosine.
hy'per·bol'i·cal·ly adv.
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Hyperbolic

Hy`per*bol"ic\, Hyperbolical \Hy`per*bol"ic*al\, a. [L. hyperbolicus, Gr. ?: cf. F. hyperbolique.]

1. (Math.) Belonging to the hyperbola; having the nature of the hyperbola.

2. (Rhet.) Relating to, containing, or of the nature of, hyperbole; exaggerating or diminishing beyond the fact; exceeding the truth; as, an hyperbolical expression. "This hyperbolical epitaph." --Fuller.

Hyperbolic functions (Math.), certain functions which have relations to the hyperbola corresponding to those which sines, cosines, tangents, etc., have to the circle; and hence, called hyperbolic sines, hyperbolic cosines, etc.

Hyperbolic logarithm. See Logarithm.

Hyperbolic spiral (Math.), a spiral curve, the law of which is, that the distance from the pole to the generating point varies inversely as the angle swept over by the radius vector.
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