Definition for AM-BIG'E-NAL

AM-BIG'E-NAL, a. [L. ambo, both, and genu, a knee.]

An ambigenal hyperbola is one of the triple hyperbolas of the second order, having one of its infinite legs falling within an angle formed by the asymptotes, and the other without. – Encyc.

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