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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 a 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; exaggerated
  2. adj. of or pertaining to a hyperbola, or to the hyperbolic function

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. adj. Belonging to the hyperbola; having the nature of the hyperbola.
  2. adj. 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

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