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The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 10 letter word HYPERBOLIC

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What does HYPERBOLIC mean?

HYPERBOLIC adjective
  1. Of or relating to hyperbole.
  2. Using hyperbole: exaggerated.
HYPERBOLIC adjective
  1. Of or pertaining to a hyperbola.
  2. Indicates that the specified function is a hyperbolic function rather than a trigonometric function.
  3. (of a metric space or a geometry) Having negative curvature or sectional curvature.
  4. (of an automorphism) Whose domain has two (possibly ideal) fixed points joined by a line mapped to itself by translation.
  5. Of, pertaining to or in a hyperbolic space (a space having negative curvature or sectional curvature).

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