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Parabola   /pərˈæbələ/   Listen
Parabola

noun
(pl. parabolas)
1.
A plane curve formed by the intersection of a right circular cone and a plane parallel to an element of the curve.





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"Parabola" Quotes from Famous Books



... and the squawk of a horn, came a crash as the Ford Car hit the tar barrel end on. Its front axle went back ten inches and the rear wheels rose upward. Two shadowy forms, that were groundlings at another time, took wings and flew in a neat parabola over the windscreen, striking the metal surface of the road with a single thud. They made no effort to rise, but lay in awkward sprawling attitudes as though in the midst of violent ...
— Men of Affairs • Roland Pertwee
... first greeting to me. He squirted a brown parabola of tobacco juice, parenthetically, into the wood-box behind the stove, right on top of the cat that had ...
— Tramping on Life - An Autobiographical Narrative • Harry Kemp


Words linked to "Parabola" :   parabolic, conic section, conic, parabolical


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