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hyperbolic sine

Noun

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hyperbolic sine (plural hyperbolic sines)

(mathematics) A hyperbolic function that is the analogue of the sine function for hyperbolic spaces, taking in a hyperbolic angle as an argument and returning the y-coordinate for the corresponding point on the unit hyperbola. It is written in symbol sinh and can be represented as:



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{\displaystyle \sinh(x)={\tfrac {1}{2}}(e^{x}-e^{-x})}

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