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

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

From Textbooks • Oct. 13, 2016

The circle, ellipse, parabola, and hyperbola are all formed by the intersection of a plane with a cone.

From Textbooks • Oct. 13, 2016

But after you have demonstrated to him the properties of the hyperbola and its asymptote, the apparent absurdity vanishes.

From The Religion of Geology and Its Connected Sciences by Hitchcock, Edward