How do you pronounce hyperbolic?

The recorded pronunciation is /ˌhaɪ.pɚˈbɔl.ɪk/.

Where does hyperbolic come from?

It is traced to Latin. First known use: First attested in the 15th century.

hyperbolic

/ˌhaɪ.pɚˈbɔl.ɪk/

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: 3.15 in modern English

Syllables: hy-per-bol-ic
IPA: /ˌhaɪ.pɚˈbɔl.ɪk/

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Meaning

adj

Of or relating to hyperbole.

adj

Using hyperbole: exaggerated.

adj

Of a perceived color, having a saturation exceeding 100%.

adj

Of or pertaining to a hyperbola.

adj

Indicates that the specified function is a hyperbolic function rather than a trigonometric function.

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Having negative curvature or sectional curvature.

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Whose domain has two (possibly ideal) fixed points joined by a line mapped to itself by translation.

adj

Of, pertaining to, or in a hyperbolic space (a space having negative curvature or sectional curvature).

Example Sentences

"At the risk of being slightly hyperbolic, the fourth season of The Simpsons is the greatest thing in the history of the universe."
"Using the techniques already explored, we can contrive to activate a coding triplet in any one of those four extremal corners. If one fixates at length on a pale blue-green stimulus, as in Figure 18, and then refixates on an already maximally saturated orange surface, then the resituated f/p vector will yield an activation triplet within the farthest corner of the cube, beyond the limits of the classical spindle. The H–J theory of our internal color representations entails that one should there find a circular after-image of a hyperbolic orange, an orange that is more "ostentatiously orange" than any (non-self-luminous) orange you have ever seen, or ever will see, as the objective color of a physical object. Row 1 of Figure 19 will allow you, once more, to test such a prediction for yourself."
"In this configuration the on-axis image is produced at the real hyperbolic focus (fₛ₂) but off-axis performance suffers."
"The hyperbolic cosine of zero is one."
"There is a universal constant m_0>0 such that every hyperbolic surface R has an embedded hyperbolic disk with radius greater than m_0."
"A hyperbolic isometry f has two (distinct) fixed points on ∂ℋ."

Etymology

From Latin hyperbolic(us), from Ancient Greek ὑπερβολικός (huperbolikós). First attested in the 15th century. By surface analysis, hyperbol(e) + -ic.

Origin

Source language: Latin
First known use: First attested in the 15th century

Word Breakdown

Root: hyperbolicus, ὑπερβολικός

Regional Pronunciation

American English: /ˌhaɪ.pɚˈbɔl.ɪk/

Inflected Forms

more hyperbolic (comparative) most hyperbolic (superlative) hyperbolical (alternative) hyperbolick (alternative, obsolete)

Derived Forms

hyperbolically antihyperbolic hyperbolicity hyperbolike hyperboloid nonhyperbolic pseudohyperbolic quasihyperbolic subhyperbolic superhyperbolic ultrahyperbolic

Phrases

arc-hyperbolic function hyperbolic 3-manifold hyperbolic algebra hyperbolic angle hyperbolic automorphism hyperbolic color hyperbolic colour hyperbolic coordinate

Frequently Paired Words

self-luminous stygian parabolic

Synonyms

exaggerative inflated

Rhymes With

alcoholic non-alcoholic symbolic metabolic parabolic anabolic melancholic folic frolic workaholic vitriolic phenolic