Associations to the word «Hyperbola»

Wiktionary

HYPERBOLA, noun. (geometry) A conic section formed by the intersection of a cone with a plane that intersects the base of the cone and is not tangent to the cone.

Dictionary definition

HYPERBOLA, noun. An open curve formed by a plane that cuts the base of a right circular cone.

Wise words

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope