Parabola Synonyms

pə-răb'ə-lə

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eccentricity
(Mathematics) The ratio, constant for any particular conic section, of the distance of a point from the focus to its distance from the directrix.
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ellipse
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paraboloid
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hyperbola
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polar-coordinates
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ellipsoid
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vector-field
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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.

  • While resembling the parabola in extending to infinity, the curve has closest affinities to the ellipse.

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