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hyperbolic

[hahy-per-bol-ik] / ˌhaɪ pərˈbɒl ɪk /




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“Just looking at this puzzle activates my fight-or-flight response,” a YouTube commenter wrote of the Hyperbolic 29 Puzzle.

From New York Times • Jan. 1, 2023

Hyperbolic, dialectical and eerily familiar, these exchanges form entire chapters.

From Washington Post • Sep. 9, 2021

Both Matsumoto and Segerman are part of Hyperbolic VR, a collaboration that is bringing hyperbolic spaces to the masses.

From Nature • Mar. 20, 2017

Hyperbolic pessimism also flows from the paradox of rising standards, by which reform makes problems look worse just when they are changing for the better.

From Slate • Oct. 3, 2016

In the first case the surface is called an Hyperboloid of one sheet, in the second an Hyperbolic Paraboloid.

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




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