hyperbolic

• The saddle-shaped structure is also known as a hyperbolic paraboloid surface, or an anticlastic surface. —  Sheila Patek clocks the fastest animals
• Often we are never able to refine our values far enough to decide whether the object is elliptical or hyperbolic, and we therefore continue listing it as a "parabolic" orbit. —  Analog July, 1974
• “Skylark” was the first of the supercolossal space-operas wherein each incident of the tale introduces some new idea and where the science approaches infinity along the curve of any hyperbolic * spiral; perhaps the first of all science-fiction stories where the scientific laws were violated without a ream of flanged-up explanation. —  SF Quarterly
• It was a good conversation that evoked a range of responses - including this angry, hyperbolic, and completely dismissive reaction from Charity my dear left-wingers, you have yourselves to blame. —  Green Mountain Daily - Front Page
• The three most common forms of decline curves are exponential, hyperbolic, and harmonic. —  بالاترین

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