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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. adj. Of, relating to, or employing hyperbole.
  2. adj. Mathematics Of, relating to, or having the form of hyperbola.
  3. adj. Mathematics Of or relating to a geometric system in which two or more lines can be drawn through any point in a plane and not intersect a given line in the plane.
  4. adj. Mathematics Of or relating to a hyperbolic function: hyperbolic cosine.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. Pertaining to or of the nature of hyperbole; obviously exaggerating or exaggerated.
  2. Pertaining to or of the nature of the hyperbola.
  3. Having a pair of real points at infinity. Thus, hyperbolic space is so called beacause in it every right line has two real points at infinity; so hyperbolic transformation, substitution, etc.

Wiktionary

  1. adj. of or relating to hyperbole
  2. adj. using hyperbole: exaggerated
  3. adj. Of or pertaining to an hyperbola.
  4. adj. Indicates that the specified function is a hyperbolic function rather than a trigonometric function.
  5. adj. mathematics Having negative curvature or sectional curvature.
  6. adj. geometry, topology Whose domain has two (possibly ideal) fixed points joined by a line mapped to itself by translation.
  7. adj. topology Of, pertaining to, or in a hyperbolic space (a space having negative curvature or sectional curvature).

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. adj. (Math.) Belonging to the hyperbola; having the nature of the hyperbola.
  2. adj. (Rhet.) Relating to, containing, or of the nature of, hyperbole; exaggerating or diminishing beyond the fact; exceeding the truth.

WordNet 3.0

  1. adj. enlarged beyond truth or reasonableness
  2. adj. of or relating to a hyperbola

Etymologies

  1. hyperbola +‎ -ic (Wiktionary)

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