hyperbola

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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

We will see that the equation of a hyperbola looks the same as the equation of an ellipse, except it is a difference rather than a sum.

From Textbooks • May 6, 2020

Sometimes the equation for a hyperbola needs to be first placed in standard form before we graph it.

From Textbooks • May 6, 2020

Its orbit is a hyperbola, and when discovered it was already rapidly leaving the inner solar system.

From Textbooks • Oct. 13, 2016

The circle has one focus at the centre, an ellipse or hyperbola two foci equidistant from the centre.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 6 "Geodesy" to "Geometry" by Various