hyperbolic : Idioms & Phrases

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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.
Webster 1913

hyperbolic geometry

  • noun (mathematics) a non-Euclidean geometry in which the parallel axiom is replaced by the assumption that through any point in a plane there are two or more lines that do not intersect a given line in the plane
    • Karl Gauss pioneered hyperbolic geometry
WordNet

Hyperbolic logarithm

  • . See Logarithm.
Webster 1913

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.
Webster 1913