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hyperbolic tangents

hyperbolic tangents is the plural of hyperbolic tangent.

Meaning of hyperbolic tangent

Noun

hyperbolic tangent (plural hyperbolic tangents)

  1. 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
    • tanh (x)=(sinh (x))/(cosh (x))=(eˣ-e⁻ˣ)/(eˣ+e⁻ˣ).

Questions about hyperbolic tangents

What is hyperbolic tangents the plural of?
Hyperbolic tangents is the plural of hyperbolic tangent.

Words near hyperbolic tangents in the dictionary

  1. hyperbolic sine
  2. hyperbolic sines
  3. hyperbolic space
  4. hyperbolic spaces
  5. hyperbolic tangent
  6. hyperbolic tangents
  7. hyperbolical
  8. hyperbolically
  9. hyperbolicity
  10. hyperbolick
  11. hyperbolicly

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