hyperbola

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If eccentricity is greater than 1, it is a hyperbola.

From Textbooks • Dec. 21, 2021

Since the x2 - term is positive, the hyperbola opens left and right.

From Textbooks • May 6, 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

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

From Textbooks • Oct. 13, 2016

In case of the ellipse and hyperbola, the pole to the line at infinity is a finite point called the centre of the curve.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 6 "Geodesy" to "Geometry" by Various