parabola
IPA: pɝˈæbʌɫʌ
noun
- (geometry) The conic section formed by the intersection of a cone with a plane parallel to a tangent plane to the cone; the locus of points equidistant from a fixed point (the focus) and line (the directrix).
- (rhetoric) The explicit drawing of a parallel between two essentially dissimilar things, especially with a moral or didactic purpose. A parable.
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Examples of "parabola" in Sentences
- The line 'BC' is tangent to the parabola.
- He is the zenith of an awesomeness parabola.
- Consider the parabola given by the parametrisation.
- The line of the centers of a parabolic hexlet is a parabola.
- This is the equation of a parabola, so the path is parabolic.
- This point is specified by the slope of the axis of the parabola.
- The three types of conics are the ellipse, parabola, and hyperbola.
- You panic at the sight of the words ellipse, parabola, and hyperbola.
- In the mathematical world, we often idealize the trajectory as a parabola.
- In this simple approximation the trajectory takes the shape of a parabola.
- Ms. Drugge, my 8th grade math teacher, was explaining that the model we were dissecting was called a parabola.
- The arching curve above - technically known as a "parabola" - is the signature of the squaring function x2 operating behind the scenes.
- Terrified of boys and the showers … especially since I have actually witnessed one myself. barely missed me and the parabola is impressive.
- For example, Archimedes proved that the area of a section of a parabola is four-thirds the area of the triangle inside it (shown in red in the diagram below).
- She smiled again – brutally, we thought – described a significant parabola from the mouth outwards with her hand, raised her eyebrows, and asked us something in Catalan.
- Claim someone shot out the indow of your Congressoinal office when it was really just a satellite office, happened at like 1 or 2 a.m., the trajectory of th ebullet meant the shooter was either wearing the baloonboy balloon and shooting from above or such a superb marksman he could aim a bullet's parabola from the ground while firing straight up, and IT WASN'T EVEN A WINDOW TO THE OFFICE SPACE YOU WERE RENTING, BUT A NEARBY WINDOW IN THE SAME BUILDING.