hyperbola
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If eccentricity is greater than 1, it is a hyperbola.
From Textbooks • Dec. 21, 2021
A hyperbola is all points in a plane where the difference of their distances from two fixed points is constant.
From Textbooks • Sep. 23, 2020
Since the y2 - term is positive, the hyperbola opens up and down.
From Textbooks • May 6, 2020
There are four conics—the circle, parabola, ellipse, and hyperbola.
From Textbooks • May 6, 2020
Two asymptotes and any two tangents to an hyperbola may be considered as a quadrilateral circumscribed about the 701 hyperbola.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 6 "Geodesy" to "Geometry" by Various
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
