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transverse axis

The axis of a hyperbola running through both vertices and both foci.

The transverse axis of a hyperbola is the segment through the center connecting its two vertices, with length 2a; it lies along whichever axis the hyperbola's branches open along, and both foci sit on this same line, farther out than the vertices.

See also

conjugate axis focus (of a conic)
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