Literary notes about hyperbolic (AI summary)
The term "hyperbolic" illustrates a remarkable versatility in literary and technical contexts. In rhetoric and narrative, it often denotes an extravagance of expression or exaggerated sentiment—used to describe florid praise or wild boasts that elevate ordinary descriptions into vivid, dramatic portrayals ([1], [2], [3]). At the same time, "hyperbolic" retains a precise meaning in scientific discussions, where it refers to forms, orbits, and functions characterized by the geometry of hyperbolas—such as describing states, trajectories, or mathematical formulations ([4], [5], [6], [7]). In this way, the word bridges the gap between artful exaggeration and exact, technical description.
- Thus, he would often indulge in hyperbolic laudations of Bipin in his wife's presence, just to provoke a display of her delightful fulminations.
— from Mashi, and Other Stories by Rabindranath Tagore - Such Oriental hyperbolic gratitude would have satisfied the greediest benefactor, and was infinitely in excess of what he owed me.
— from Ghetto Comedies by Israel Zangwill - Their principal work was dedicated to her, in terms of hyperbolic praise.
— from Herbals, Their Origin and Evolution: A Chapter in the History of Botany 1470-1670 by Agnes Robertson Arber - We may hence deduce the following property of the corresponding hyperbolic State.
— from The Romance of Mathematics Being the Original Researches of a Lady Professor of Girtham College in Polemical Science, with some Account of the Social Properties of a Conic; Equations to Brain Waves; Social Forces; and the Laws of Political Motion. by P. Hampson - 137-170; and Chapter XIX, “Meteoroids, Meteorites, and Hyperbolic Meteoritic Velocities,” by Lincoln LaPaz, pp.
— from Space Nomads: Meteorites in Sky, Field, and Laboratory by Lincoln LaPaz - Some of these objects might perhaps revolve in hyperbolic orbits, and retreat never to return; while others would be driven into elliptic paths.
— from The Story of the Heavens by Robert S. (Robert Stawell) Ball - "I am wondering," said Professor Maddox, "if we should not make the reflector parabolic instead of hyperbolic.
— from The Year When Stardust Fell by Raymond F. Jones
