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rectangular hyperbola

American  

noun

Geometry.

  1. a hyperbola with transverse and conjugate axes equal to each other.

rectangular hyperbola British  

noun

  1. a hyperbola with perpendicular asymptotes

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Etymology

Origin of rectangular hyperbola

First recorded in 1880–85

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