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hyperbolic tangent

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.87 in modern English

Syllables
hy-per-bol-ic -tan-gent
IPA
30
Scrabble Score
17
Letters
6
Syllables
14
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A hyperbolic function that is the analogue of the tangent function for hyperbolic spaces, taking in a hyperbolic angle as an argument and returning the y-coordinate for the corresponding point on the unit hyperbola, symbolically represented as

Example Sentences

  • "tanh (x)=(sinh (x))/(cosh (x))=(eˣ-e⁻ˣ)/(eˣ+e⁻ˣ)."

Inflected Forms

hyperbolic tangents (plural)

Phrases

hyperbolic sine hyperbolic cosine

Frequently Paired Words

hyperbolic sine hyperbolic cosine

Questions

What does hyperbolic tangent mean?
A hyperbolic function that is the analogue of the tangent function for hyperbolic spaces, taking in a hyperbolic angle as an argument and returning the y-coordinate for the corresponding point on the unit hyperbola, symbolically represented as

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