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   The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition.  2000.
 
hyperbolic
 
SYLLABICATION:hy·per·bol·ic
PRONUNCIATION:  hpr-blk
VARIANT FORMS: also hy·per·bol·i·cal (--kl)
ADJECTIVE:1. Of, relating to, or employing hyperbole. 2. Mathematics a. Of, relating to, or having the form of a hyperbola. b. Of or relating to a geometric system in which two or more lines can be drawn through any point in a plane and not intersect a given line in the plane. c. Of or relating to a hyperbolic function: hyperbolic cosine.
OTHER FORMS:hyper·boli·cal·lyADVERB
 
 
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