The arching curve above - technically known as a "parabola" - is the signature of the squaring function x2 operating behind the scenes. From Wordnik.com. [NYT > Home Page]
In this case, the parabola is the graph of the function. From Wordnik.com. [Euclid’s Window] Reference
See, it's just not okay to be calling a parabola a sphere. From Wordnik.com. [He actually thinks this makes him look better] Reference
You describe the curve known as a parabola, and skin your own nose on the icy crust of the snow. From Wordnik.com. [Bog-Myrtle and Peat Tales Chiefly of Galloway Gathered from the Years 1889 to 1895] Reference
Any writer who is not utterly lifeless moves upon a kind of parabola, and the downward curve is implied in the upper one. From Wordnik.com. [Collected Essays] Reference
Report this comment across the pale parabola of joy. From Wordnik.com. [Smoking Guns and the Morality of Parliamentary Privilege] Reference
Had ITs human master performed such a parabola before?. From Wordnik.com. [If IT Were YOU] Reference
But each parabola also has a period of increased gravity. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Oct 18, 2008] Reference
Is the orbit that of an ellipse, or a circle, or a parabola?. From Wordnik.com. [Aether and Gravitation] Reference
Given the inclined straight line y = cx, the machine draws the parabola. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American Supplement, No. 288, July 9, 1881] Reference
Blood and brain and bone arced through the sunlight in a perfect parabola. From Wordnik.com. [One Shot]
Lines in the dust, in the single's bar, strung out between a parabola of poles. From Wordnik.com. [Nuke the Chinks] Reference
This parabola is the curve of maximum moments for a travelling load uniform per ft. run. From Wordnik.com. [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 "Brescia" to "Bulgaria"] Reference
As she spoke, a shot rose high in air and ended its parabola in the heart of the doomed city. From Wordnik.com. [The New England Magazine, Volume 1, No. 1, January 1886 Bay State Monthly, Volume 4, No. 1, January, 1886] Reference
I mean, in the space of five minutes, Gregory goes from one end of the parabola to the other!. From Wordnik.com. [TV SoundOff: Sunday Talking Heads] Reference
The center screen displays a red spot moving in a shallow parabola away from a blue jellybean. From Wordnik.com. [A King of Infinite Space]
To draw a parabola mechanically: In Figure 84 C D is the width and H J the height of the curve. From Wordnik.com. [Mechanical Drawing Self-Taught] Reference
He lifted his arm and swung the,/axe in a blinding parabola, letting it smash into the counter. From Wordnik.com. [Blood Test]
For short spans this curve can be approximated with a parabola which simplifies the calculations. From Wordnik.com. [1. Swer, a low cost rural distribution system using single wire earth return.] Reference
The bridge rose up over the river in a graceful parabola, its steel cables strung with red lights. From Wordnik.com. [Middlesex]
Hevelius made numerous researches on comets, and suggested that the form of their paths might be a parabola. From Wordnik.com. [The Astronomy of Milton's 'Paradise Lost'] Reference
The prow of the boat is connected with the apex of the parabola by a curve whose concavity is directed upward. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American Supplement, No. 385, May 19, 1883] Reference
So, for instance, a parabola describes the motion of an apple that's tossed into the air and then comes back down. From Wordnik.com. [The Calculus Around You] Reference
At any convenient distance above J fasten a straight-edge A B, setting it parallel to the base C D of the parabola. From Wordnik.com. [Mechanical Drawing Self-Taught] Reference
Language studies have their unique terms: nominative, comma, plot; mathematics has its: tangent, sum, parabola, etc. From Wordnik.com. [Sequential Problem Solving A Student Handbook with Checklists for Successful Critical Thinking] Reference
In a beautiful parabola, Garth's sword sailed out into the water, and he dropped to the sand to nurse his right wrist. From Wordnik.com. [Out Around Rigel] Reference
In other positions the projection of the sphere becomes an ellipse, or one of its varieties, the parabola and hyperbola. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 30, April, 1860] Reference
AM behind A in F ', the energy-curve will be a parabola curving upwards, and the velocity-curve a hyperbola with center at F'. From Wordnik.com. [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy"] Reference
Now, except for very short bridges and very unequal loads, a parabola can be found which includes the curve of maximum moments. From Wordnik.com. [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 "Brescia" to "Bulgaria"] Reference
If a parabola roll on another parabola, their vertices coinciding, the focus of the first traces out the directrix of the second. From Wordnik.com. [The Romance of Mathematics Being the Original Researches of a Lady Professor of Girtham College in Polemical Science, with some Account of the Social Properties of a Conic; Equations to Brain Waves; Social Forces; and the Laws of Political Motion.] Reference
If the load travels the reverse way, the shearing force at the head of the train is given by the ordinates of the dotted parabola. From Wordnik.com. [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 "Brescia" to "Bulgaria"] Reference
For instance, in the case of the parabola, the distance of any particle from the directrix is equal to its distance from the focus. From Wordnik.com. [The Romance of Mathematics Being the Original Researches of a Lady Professor of Girtham College in Polemical Science, with some Account of the Social Properties of a Conic; Equations to Brain Waves; Social Forces; and the Laws of Political Motion.] Reference
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. From Wordnik.com. [Under the Dragon Flag My Experiences in the Chino-Japanese War] Reference
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