Hyper

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Etymology

hyper - comes from the ancient greek ὑπέρ and means over or above. Cognate to the Latin super.

Hyper may refer to:

• Hyper (2016 film), 2016 Indian Telugu film
• Hyper (2018 film), 2018 Indian Kannada film
• Hyper (magazine), an Australian video game magazine
• Hyper (television), a Polish TV channel
• Hyper (TV channel), an Philippine sports Pay TV Channel
• A slang term used to refer to hyperactivity, a medical notion describing a state in which a person is abnormally excitable and exuberant
• DJ Hyper, a British electronic musician
• Hyper engine, a hypothetical aircraft engine design
• Hyper Island, a Swedish educational company
• Europe Sails Hyper, an Austrian hang glider

As a prefix

• A prefix used in mathematics to denote four or more dimensions, see four-dimensional space and higher dimension
  • Hypercube, a cube [0,1]^d, where d > 3 (the word tesseract was used, especially in nineteenth and early twentieth century British semi-popular books on mathematics, to denote the special case d = 4)
  • Hyperplane, an affine subspace of codimension one in such a space
  • Hypersphere, a round sphere of dimension higher than 2, especially if embedded in such a space
  • Hypersurface, a submanifold of codimension one, especially if embedded in such a space (including hypersphere and hyperplane as special cases)
• A prefix often used in scientific and technical words, to denote something above or beyond the usual, normal, expected, or healthy level. Sometimes used to mean extreme or specifically "more than super-".
  • Hypersonic, much faster than the speed of sound, i.e. extremely supersonic
  • Hypernova, an explosion of an exceptionally large star i.e. even larger than a supernova
  • Hyperthermia, a condition of abnormally (and dangerously) high body temperature
  • Hyperglycemia, a condition in which an excessive amount of glucose circulates in the blood plasma
• A prefix used to denote content with hyperlinks on the Internet
  • Hypertext, text which contains hyperlinks
  • Hypermedia, extending the concept of hypertext to images, graphics, audio, etc.
• Hyperoperation, an arithmetic operation beyond exponentiation
• Hyperstructure, an algebraic structure equipped with at least one multivalued operation
• Hyper-threading, an implementation of simultaneous multithreading technology

See also

• Hyperspace (disambiguation)