hyperbola
Example Sentences
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"Not every hyperbola is a burial or a grave — there's tree roots, there's masses, and other things in the substrate," Small says.
From Salon
Take a cone and cut it up; you get circles, ellipses, parabolas, and hyperbolas, depending on how you slice it.
From Literature
But most of the world of commodities is defined by hyperbola- or parabola-shaped curves.
From US News
“You can make a complete set of all four sconic sections: circle, ellipse, parabola and hyperbola,” the site explains, in step-by-step instructions that could easily swallow your entire weekend.
From New York Times
One of the portions of a curve that extends outwards to an indefinitely great distance; as, the branches of an hyperbola.
From Project Gutenberg
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
