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
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 Project Gutenberg
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
