Usually means: Conic section, two open branches.
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  1. hyperbola: Merriam-Webster
  2. hyperbola: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. hyperbola: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. hyperbola: Collins English Dictionary
  5. hyperbola: Vocabulary.com
  6. Hyperbola, hyperbola: Wordnik
  7. hyperbola: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. hyperbola: Wiktionary
  9. hyperbola: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. hyperbola: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. hyperbola: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. hyperbola: Dictionary.com
  13. hyperbola: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. Hyperbola: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Hyperbola: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. hyperbola: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. hyperbola: FreeDictionary.org
  18. hyperbola: Mnemonic Dictionary
  19. hyperbola: TheFreeDictionary.com
  20. hyperbola: Rhymezone
  21. Hyperbola: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  22. hyperbola: Webster's 1828 Dictionary

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  1. hyperbola: ArtLex Lexicon of Visual Art Terminology

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  1. hyperbola: Legal dictionary

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  1. hyperbola: Encyclopedia

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  1. hyperbola: Wordcraft Dictionary

Science (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Hyperbola: Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics
  2. hyperbola, hyperbola, hyperbola: PlanetMath Encyclopedia
  3. HYPERBOLA: Zoom Astronomy Glossary
  4. Hyperbola: Visual of Special Plane Curves

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  1. hyperbola: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See hyperbolae as well.)

Definitions from 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. The function y(x) = 1/x draws a hyperbola.

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