hyperbola

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The foci must lie on the transverse axis and be in the interior of the hyperbola.

From Textbooks • Dec. 21, 2021

A hyperbola is all points in a plane where the difference of their distances from two fixed points is constant.

From Textbooks • Sep. 23, 2020

There are four conics—the circle, parabola, ellipse, and hyperbola.

From Textbooks • May 6, 2020

Its orbit is a hyperbola, and when discovered it was already rapidly leaving the inner solar system.

From Textbooks • Oct. 13, 2016

The two axes of the ellipse are the major axis and the minor axis, and the two axes of the hyperbola are the transverse axis and the conjugate axis.

From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (2nd 100 Pages) by Webster, Noah