Found 2 items, similar to hyperbolic.
English → English (WordNet) Definition: hyperbolic hyperbolic adj 1: enlarged beyond truth or reasonableness; “had an exaggerated (or inflated) opinion of himself”; “a hyperbolic style” [syn: exaggerated, inflated] 2: of or relating to a hyperbola; “hyperbolic functions”
English → English (gcide) Definition: Hyperbolic Hyperbolic \Hy`per*bol"ic\, Hyperbolical \Hy`per*bol"ic*al\, a. [L. hyperbolicus, Gr. ?: cf. F. hyperbolique.] 1. (Math.) Belonging to the hyperbola; having the nature of the hyperbola. [1913 Webster] 2. (Rhet.) Relating to, containing, or of the nature of, hyperbole; exaggerating or diminishing beyond the fact; exceeding the truth; as, an hyperbolical expression. “This hyperbolical epitaph.” --Fuller. [1913 Webster] Hyperbolic functions (Math.), certain functions which have relations to the hyperbola corresponding to those which sines, cosines, tangents, etc., have to the circle; and hence, called hyperbolic sines, hyperbolic cosines, etc. Hyperbolic logarithm. See Logarithm. Hyperbolic spiral (Math.), a spiral curve, the law of which is, that the distance from the pole to the generating point varies inversely as the angle swept over by the radius vector. [1913 Webster]