A **hyperbolic group** is a type of group that exhibits a particular geometric property related to negative curvature. The concept of hyperbolic groups originates from the study of hyperbolic geometry and plays a significant role in geometric group theory.
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A finitely generated group is hyperbolic when one, equivalently every, Cayley graph for a finite generating set is a Gromov-hyperbolic metric space.