Hyperbola - Law Dictionary Search Results
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A curve formed by a section of a cone when the cutting plane makes a greater angle with the base than the side of the cone makes It is a plane curve such that the difference of the distances from any point of it to two fixed points called foci is equal to a given distance See Focus If the cutting plane be produced so as to cut the opposite cone another curve will be formed which is also an hyperbola Both curves are regarded as branches of the same hyperbola See Illust of Conic section and Focus...
Hyperbolic
Belonging to the hyperbola having the nature of the hyperbola...
Hyper
A prefix signifying over above as hyperphysical hyperthyrion also above measure abnormally great excessive as hyperaeligmia hyperbola hypercritical hypersecretion...
Hyperbolically
In the form of an hyperbola...
Hyperboliform
Having the form or nearly the form of an hyperbola...
Hyperboloid
A surface of the second order which is cut by certain planes in hyperbolas also the solid bounded in part by such a surface...
Indicatrix
A certain conic section supposed to be drawn in the tangent plane to any surface and used to determine the accidents of curvature of the surface at the point of contact The curve is similar to the intersection of the surface with a parallel to the tangent plane and indefinitely near it It is an ellipse when the curvature is synclastic and an hyperbola when the curvature is anticlastic...
Lemniscata
A curve in the form of the figure 8 with both parts symmetrical generated by the point in which a tangent to an equilateral hyperbola meets the perpendicular on it drawn from the center...
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