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hyperbolae

hyperbolae is the plural of hyperbola.

Meaning of hyperbola

Noun

hyperbola (plural hyperbolas or hyperbolae or hyperbolæ)

  1. 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.

Questions about hyperbolae

What is hyperbolae the plural of?
Hyperbolae is the plural of hyperbola.

Words near hyperbolae in the dictionary

  1. hyperblebbed
  2. hyperblebbing
  3. hyperblebs
  4. hyperblock
  5. hyperbola
  6. hyperbolae
  7. hyperbolaeon
  8. hyperbolas
  9. hyperbole
  10. hyperboles
  11. hyperbolic

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Adapted from Wiktionary: hyperbolae (page history and authors); hyperbola (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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