A hyperbola is a type of smooth curve and one of the conic sections, which can be formed by intersecting a double cone with a plane. Mathematically, a hyperbola is defined as the set of all points (P) for which the absolute difference of the distances to two fixed points, called foci (F1 and F2), is constant.

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