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Meanings of hyperbola in English

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Usage of hyperbola in English
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Tip the flashlight a bit more, and you have made a hyperbola.
Death by black hole: and other cosmic quandaries
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For my thought is like a hyperbola that continually widens ascending.
The Story of My Heart: An Autobiography
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The Lord Brouncker employed this series to square the hyperbola.
Letters on England
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This is the equation of an hyperbola whose center is on the axis of abscisses.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 787, January 31, 1891
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Barbicane inclined to the opinion that this curve would be a parabola and not an hyperbola.
The Moon-Voyage
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Barbicane was inclined to believe that this curve would be rather a parabola than a hyperbola.
From the Earth to the Moon; and, Round the Moon
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I said, "if my orbit is a hyperbola, I shall never return to earth."
The Brick Moon, and Other Stories
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Some are elliptic, but, for the greater part round: some represent an hemisphere, others a segment, others an hyperbola.
Thaumaturgia; Or, Elucidations of the Marvellous
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Is it then an hyperbola?
Off on a Comet! a Journey through Planetary Space
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In other positions the projection of the sphere becomes an ellipse, or one of its varieties, the parabola and hyperbola.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 30, April, 1860 / A Magazin...
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The body under the circumstances might describe an hyperbola as welt as an ellipse, as Professor Mitchell himself subsequently remarks.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 33, July, 1860 / A Magazine...
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The following analysis shows that with the aid of an hyperbola any arc, and therefore any angle, may be trisected.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 787, January 31, 1891
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An interesting feature of all of these curves-theellipse, the parabola, and the hyperbola-wasthat they were generated by straight things, viz.
Quicksilver
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At an eccentricity of exactly 1, you have a parabola, and for eccentricities greater than 1, the orbit traces a hyperbola.
Death by black hole: and other cosmic quandaries
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Comets also have their troubles, their perihilions, their hyperbolas and their parabolas.
Remarks
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I say, Messrs. Cosine, do leave off throwing your hyperbolas and parabolas at one's head.
The Moon-Voyage
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