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rectangular hyperbola

American

noun

Geometry.

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

rectangular hyperbola British

noun

a hyperbola with perpendicular asymptotes

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Etymology

Origin of rectangular hyperbola

First recorded in 1880–85

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The graph of this function is called a rectangular hyperbola as shown.

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