hyperbolical

Adjective (1)

hyperbolic (comparative more hyperbolic, superlative most hyperbolic)

1. Of or relating to hyperbole.
2. Using hyperbole: exaggerated.
   • At the risk of being slightly hyperbolic, the fourth season of The Simpsons is the greatest thing in the history of the universe.2012 May 20, Nathan Rabin, “TV: Review: THE SIMPSONS (CLASSIC): “Marge Gets A Job” (season 4, episode 7; originally aired 11/05/1992)”, in The Onion AV Club

   Synonyms:

   exaggerative

3. (color theory) Of a perceived color, having a saturation exceeding 100%.
   • Using the techniques already explored, we can contrive to activate a coding triplet in any one of those four extremal corners. If one fixates at length on a pale blue-green stimulus, as in Figure 18, and then refixates on an already maximally saturated orange surface, then the resituated f/p vector...2005, Paul Churchland, “Chimerical colors: some phenomenological predictions from cognitive neuroscience”, in Philosophical Psychology, volume 18, number 5, →DOI, archived from the original on 16 Jun...

Adjective (2)

hyperbolic (not comparable)

1. Of or pertaining to a hyperbola.
   • In this configuration the on-axis image is produced at the real hyperbolic focus (fₛ₂) but off-axis performance suffers.1988, R. F. Leftwich, "Wide-Band Radiation Thermometers", chapter 7 of, David P. DeWitt and Gene D. Nutter, editors, Theory and Practice of Radiation Thermometry, page 512...
2. Indicates that the specified function is a hyperbolic function rather than a trigonometric function.
   • The hyperbolic cosine of zero is one.
3. Having negative curvature or sectional curvature.
   • There is a universal constant m_0>0 such that every hyperbolic surface R has an embedded hyperbolic disk with radius greater than m_0.1998, Katsuhiko Matsuzaki and Masahiko Taniguchi, Hyperbolic Manifolds and Kleinian Groups, 2002 reprint, Oxford, page 8, proposition 0.10...

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