hyperbola

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If eccentricity is greater than 1, it is a 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

In your own words, define a hyperbola and write the equation of a hyperbola centered at the origin in standard form.

From Textbooks • May 6, 2020

Since the y2 - term is positive, the hyperbola opens up and down.

From Textbooks • May 6, 2020

A body moving in a parabola or hyperbola would recede indefinitely from its centre of motion and never return to it.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 7 "Arundel, Thomas" to "Athens" by Various