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- English Word Hypaspist Definition A shield-bearer or armor-bearer.
- English Word Hypaxial Definition Beneath the axis of the skeleton; subvertebral; hyposkeletal.
- English Word Hyper- Definition A prefix signifying over, above; as, hyperphysical, hyperthyrion; also, above measure, abnormally great, excessive; as, hyperaemia, hyperbola, hypercritical, hypersecretion.
- English Word Hyper- Definition A prefix equivalent to super- or per-; as hyperoxide, or peroxide. [Obs.] See Per-.
- English Word Hyperaemia Definition A superabundance or congestion of blood in an organ or part of the body.
- English Word Hyperaesthesia Definition A state of exalted or morbidly increased sensibility of the body, or of a part of it.
- English Word Hyperapophyses Definition of Hyperapophysis
- English Word Hyperapophysis Definition A lateral and backward-projecting process on the dorsal side of a vertebra.
- English Word Hyperaspist Definition One who holds a shield over another; hence, a defender.
- English Word Hyperbatic Definition Of or pertaining to an hyperbaton; transposed; inverted.
- 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.