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Hyperbola   /haɪpˈərbələ/   Listen
Hyperbola

noun
1.
An open curve formed by a plane that cuts the base of a right circular cone.






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"Hyperbola" Quotes from Famous Books



... attraction y 1 / x squared the machine draws the hyperbola y 1 / x the curve representing potential, as the work done in bringing a unit from an infinite distance to a point is measured by the area between the curve of attraction, the axis of x, and the ordinate at ...
— Scientific American Supplement, No. 288 - July 9, 1881 • Various

... surfaces of the unit weight as outlined in the foregoing tables are plotted as ordinates and the corresponding diameters as abscissae, the resulting curve is a hyperbola and follows the law XY C. In making these calculations the radii or one-half of the thickness need only to be taken into consideration as the heat is conducted from the center of the body to the ...
— The Working of Steel - Annealing, Heat Treating and Hardening of Carbon and Alloy Steel • Fred H. Colvin

... representation of the one next above, where it stands dramatized, as it were. This is the play of Brahm; endlessly to dissever, in time and space, and to unite in consciousness, like the geometrician who discovers every ellipse, parabola, and hyperbola, in the ...
— Four-Dimensional Vistas • Claude Fayette Bragdon



Words linked to "Hyperbola" :   conic, conic section, hyperbolic



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