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- English Word Hyperbaton Definition A figurative construction, changing or inverting the natural order of words or clauses; as, "echoed the hills" for "the hills echoed."
- English Word Hyperbola Definition A curve formed by a section of a cone, when the cutting plane makes a greater angle with the base than the side of the cone makes. It is a plane curve such that the difference of the distances from any point of it to two fixed points, called foci, is equal to a given distance. See Focus. If the cutting plane be produced so as to cut the opposite cone, another curve will be formed, which is also an hyperbola. Both curves are regarded as branches of the same hyperbola. See Illust. of Conic section, and Focus.
- English Word Hyperbole Definition A figure of speech in which the expression is an evident exaggeration of the meaning intended to be conveyed, or by which things are represented as much greater or less, better or worse, than they really are; a statement exaggerated fancifully, through excitement, or for effect.
- English Word Hyperbolic Definition Alt. of Hyperbolical
- English Word Hyperbolical Definition Belonging to the hyperbola; having the nature of the hyperbola.
- English Word Hyperbolical Definition Relating to, containing, or of the nature of, hyperbole; exaggerating or diminishing beyond the fact; exceeding the truth; as, an hyperbolical expression.
- English Word Hyperbolically Definition In the form of an hyperbola.
- English Word Hyperbolically Definition With exaggeration; in a manner to express more or less than the truth.
- English Word Hyperboliform Definition Having the form, or nearly the form, of an hyperbola.
- English Word Hyperbolism Definition The use of hyperbole.
- English Word Hyperbolist Definition One who uses hyperboles.
- English Word Hyperbolize Definition To speak or write with exaggeration.
- English Word Hyperbolize Definition To state or represent hyperbolically.
- English Word Hyperbolized Definition of Hyperbolize
- English Word Hyperbolizing Definition of Hyperbolize
- English Word Hyperboloid Definition A surface of the second order, which is cut by certain planes in hyperbolas; also, the solid, bounded in part by such a surface.
- English Word Hyperboloid Definition Having some property that belongs to an hyperboloid or hyperbola.
- English Word Hyperborean Definition Of or pertaining to the region beyond the North wind, or to its inhabitants.
- English Word Hyperborean Definition Northern; belonging to, or inhabiting, a region in very far north; most northern; hence, very cold; fright, as, a hyperborean coast or atmosphere.
- English Word Hyperborean Definition One of the people who lived beyond the North wind, in a land of perpetual sunshine.
- English Word Hyperborean Definition An inhabitant of the most northern regions.
- English Word Hypercarbureted Definition Having an excessive proportion of carbonic acid; -- said of bicarbonates or acid carbonates.
- English Word Hypercatalectic Definition Having a syllable or two beyond measure; as, a hypercatalectic verse.
- English Word Hyperchloric Definition See Perchloric.
- English Word Hyperchromatism Definition The condition of having an unusual intensity of color.
- English Word Hypercritic Definition One who is critical beyond measure or reason; a carping critic; a captious censor.
- English Word Hypercritic Definition Hypercritical.
- English Word Hypercritical Definition Over critical; unreasonably or unjustly critical; carping; captious.
- English Word Hypercritical Definition Excessively nice or exact.
- English Word Hypercritically Definition In a hypercritical manner.