hyperbola
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If eccentricity is greater than 1, it is a hyperbola.
From Textbooks • Dec. 21, 2021
The foci must lie on the transverse axis and be in the interior of the hyperbola.
From Textbooks • Dec. 21, 2021
The two points where the transverse axis intersects the hyperbola are each a vertex of the hyperbola.
From Textbooks • May 6, 2020
There are four conics—the circle, parabola, ellipse, and hyperbola.
From Textbooks • May 6, 2020
The branches of the hyperbola approach these lines indefinitely as a point on the curves moves to infinity.
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.
