hyperbolic
adjective uk/ˌhaɪ.pəˈbɒl.ɪk/ us/ˌhaɪ.pɚˈbɑː.lɪk/
(SPEECH)
formal（说或写）夸张的
relating to a way of speaking or writing that makes someone or something sound bigger, better, more, etc., than they are
hyperbolic rhetoric 夸张的言辞
He wrote in very hyperbolic terms. 他写得非常夸张。
See: hyperbole
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- The film was a hyperbolic and exuberant drama-documentary of gangster rituals, amorality, and violence.
- Don't use hyperbolic marketing language to describe your novel to a publisher.
- The hyperbolic New York City developer was in Chicago to go over the design of a proposed residential tower.
(CURVE)
mathematics specialized双曲线
involving a curve whose ends continue to move apart from each other
The spacecraft are all travelling in unusual hyperbolic curves. 航天器都以不寻常的双曲线行驶。
Comets don't have regular orbits; they can come in in a hyperbolic orbit. 彗星没有规则的轨道;它们可以沿着双曲线轨道出现。
See: hyperbola
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- The hyperbolic plane has been described as a surface where space curves away from itself at each point and expands.
- The selected mathematical example here is a hyperbolic graph.
- The painting will be displayed in its original hyperbolic shape.