hyperbolic tangent
noun1
Mathematics, Sciences A hyperbolic function that is the analogue of the tangent 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, symbolically represented as
- tanh (x)=(sinh (x))/(cosh (x))=(eˣ-e⁻ˣ)/(eˣ+e⁻ˣ).
- Related terms
- hyperbolic sine, hyperbolic cosine