Parabola Definition

pə-răbə-lə
parabolas
noun
A plane curve which is the path, or locus, of a moving point that remains equally distant from a fixed point (focus) and from a fixed straight line (directrix); curve formed by the section of a cone cut by a plane parallel to the side of the cone.
Webster's New World

(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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Noun

Singular:
parabola
Plural:
parabol, parabolas

Origin of Parabola

  • New Latin from Greek parabolē comparison, application, parabola (from the relationship between the line joining the vertices of a conic and the line through its focus and parallel to its directrix) from paraballein to compare parable

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • From Ancient Greek παραβολή (parabolÄ“), from παραβάλλω (paraballō, “I set side by side"), from παρά (para, “beside") + βάλλω (ballō, “I throw").

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Parabola Sentence Examples

  • By joining the points so obtained the parabola may be described.

  • Thus we find from (i) that Simpson's second formula, for the case where the top is a parabola (with axis, as before, at right angles to the base) and there are three strips of breadth h, may be replaced by area = 8h(3u i + 2U 1 + 3us).

  • As the load travels, the shear at the head of the train will be given by the ordinates of a parabola having its vertex at A, and a maximum F max.

  • It may be regarded as an epicycloid in which the rolling and fixed circles are equal in diameter, as the inverse of a parabola for its focus, or as the caustic produced by the reflection at a spherical surface of rays emanating from a point on the circumference.

  • In a vacuum, the projectile acted on by the force of projection begins to fall under the action of gravity immediately it leaves the bore, and under the combined action of these two forces the path of the projectile is a parabola.

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