Parabola is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for PARABOLA in dictionary:

NOUN:
• (Greek) a type of curve, one of the conic sections
• a symmetrical open plane curve formed by the intersection of a cone with a plane parallel to its side. The path of a projectile under the influence of gravity follows a curve of this shape.
• regular curve resembling the course of an object thrown forward and up
• A kind of curve; one of the conic sections formed by the intersection of the surface of a cone with a plane parallel to one of its sides. It is a curve, any point of which is equally distant from a fixed point, called the focus, and a fixed straight line, called the directrix. See Focus.
• One of a group of curves defined by the equation y = axn where n is a positive whole number or a positive fraction. For the cubical parabola n = 3; for the semicubical parabola n = /. See under Cubical, and Semicubical. The parabolas have infinite branches, but no rectilineal asymptotes.
• a plane curve formed by the intersection of a right circular cone and a plane parallel to an element of the curve
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• a conic section

Words related to PARABOLA

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Words that contain PARABOLA

parabolae13 parabolas13 parabolanus15 parabolanuses17

How to use PARABOLA in a sentence

• Jimsy arose into the atmosphere and described a distinct parabola.
• It is neither ellipse nor parabola nor section of the circle, but an inspiration of creative fancy.
• He who has undertaken to describe the parabola of a projectile, cannot be satisfied with tracing its gradual rise and determining its culmination.
• A steel fragment came sailing over in a wide parabola and struck the foot of a man standing in the breakfast queue.
• I heard the scream of the projectile, saw it describing its flaring parabola in my direction, and with my last energies dived to avoid it.
• The word transcendental is like a parabola, in that there is no knowing where its meaning ends.
• Now, except for very short bridges and very unequal loads, a parabola can be found which includes the curve of maximum moments.
• It enters at the narrowest part of the ground, farthest from the house, makes a long parabola, and turns again into the street close beside the dwelling.
• Through the dark curtain of the sky in a parabola rising from the German trenches swept the brilliant sputter of red light of a German flare.
• The projectile immediately rose with rapidity, described a majestic parabola, attained a height of about a thousand feet, and then with a graceful curve fell into the waves.
• However, if the parabola was admitted, the bullet ought soon to come out of the cone of shadow thrown into the space on the opposite side to the sun.
• The back of the piebald changed from an ugly humped line to a decidedly sharp parabola and the horse left the ground with all four feet.

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