This steepness would be described as a parabolic move on the chart by stock traders. From Wordnik.com. [TradingMarkets] Reference
I have heard of a wonderful mirror known to science, which is called the parabolic mirror. From Wordnik.com. [The God of All Comfort] Reference
Andasol 1 is a solar-thermal power station and what is known as a parabolic trough power station. From Wordnik.com. [Energy News - Energy Technology - Energy Business - Energy and the Environment] Reference
Workers assemble a pilot solar collector known as a parabolic trough during testing for the proposed solar power plant near Blythe, Calif. From Wordnik.com. [msnbc.com: Top msnbc.com headlines] Reference
All three power plants use curved mirrors called parabolic troughs to reflect and concentrate the sunlight to heat up liquid inside tubes for harvesting steam. From Wordnik.com. [SeekingAlpha.com: Home Page] Reference
In economics this trend is considered "parabolic", and all things that go parabolic are unsustainable. From Wordnik.com. [Garrett Johnson: The Weird Have Turned Pro] Reference
Known as "super-sidecut," "parabolic" or "hourglass" skis, they are calculated to make the sport easier for everyone from beginners to experts. From Wordnik.com. [Turn, Turn, Turn] Reference
It also had what they describe as a "parabolic" relationship with age. From Wordnik.com. [Ars Technica] Reference
Epic poetry he awarded to the former, "parabolic" poetry to the latter. From Wordnik.com. [Aesthetic as Science of Expression and General Linguistic] Reference
Søren Korsgaard, who specializes in designing this kind of parabolic structure, often on a much larger scale. From Wordnik.com. [Ohdeedoh] Reference
This "parabolic" move examined on a daily time frame begins to reveal a strategy for entering a short position. From Wordnik.com. Reference
This will make them perfect for solar concentrators such as parabolic dishes, which focus the suns rays and can get as hot as 800 degrees Celsius. From Wordnik.com. [Gizmodo] Reference
After that kind of parabolic rally in a bear market it is not uncommon for the market to experience profit-taking and the initiation of new short positions into the strength. From Wordnik.com. [pfblogs.org: The Ad-Free Personal Finance Blogs Aggregator] Reference
That reduces your exposure to this parabolic curve. From Wordnik.com. [It's White Knuckle Time] Reference
For astronomical purposes a parabolic mirror is required. From Wordnik.com. [On Laboratory Arts] Reference
Elan says the SCX parabolic is its fastest-selling ski ever. From Wordnik.com. [Turn, Turn, Turn] Reference
Let the length of half the parabolic chain be called s, then. From Wordnik.com. [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 "Brescia" to "Bulgaria"] Reference
And curving around on the far wall, like a huge parabolic mirror, was the. From Wordnik.com. [Gold in the Sky] Reference
He saw the question coming in a sort of parabolic curve and he dodged it. From Wordnik.com. [The Masques of Ottawa] Reference
It is in reality falling in a great parabolic or elliptical curve through space. From Wordnik.com. [Edison's Conquest of Mars] Reference
~ -- The bridge consisted of seven parabolic arch ribs of 75 ft. clear span and 14 ft. rise. From Wordnik.com. [Concrete Construction Methods and Costs] Reference
Such is the erratic conduct of a heavenly body whose course is regulated by a parabolic curve. 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
Its depth at the crown is 33 ft., and its centre line follows nearly the parabolic line of pressures. From Wordnik.com. [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 "Brescia" to "Bulgaria"] Reference
He couldn't confiscate this memory of a parabolic poet whose rocket of a life has now fallen to earth. From Wordnik.com. [Remembering Poet Andrei Voznesensky] Reference
The curves of friction resemble, very nearly, parabolic curves, but are not quite so sharp near the origin. From Wordnik.com. [Farm drainage The Principles, Processes, and Effects of Draining Land with Stones, Wood, Plows, and Open Ditches, and Especially with Tiles] Reference
Mirror surfaces are ground spherical, the reduction to parabolic form being attained in the process of polishing. From Wordnik.com. [On Laboratory Arts] Reference
The parabolic form of housing is elegant in appearance, but theoretically right only when of uniform cross section. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American Supplement, No. 643, April 28, 1888] Reference
In comparison to the near parabolic growth of the last few years, it is evident that that growth is going somewhere. From Wordnik.com. [Reggie Middleton: Empirical Evidence of Android Eating Apple] Reference
In spans over 200 ft. it is economical to have one horizontal boom and one polygonal (approximately parabolic) boom. From Wordnik.com. [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 "Brescia" to "Bulgaria"] Reference
Various orbits have been tried, elliptical, parabolic and hyperbolic; yet none will accord with all the observations. From Wordnik.com. [Outlines of a Mechanical Theory of Storms Containing the True Law of Lunar Influence] Reference
The lesson is one: the first portion of it is delivered in simple didactic language, and the second in parabolic figure. From Wordnik.com. [The Parables of Our Lord] Reference
Twin engines will then ignite, sending the capsule on a parabolic trajectory that reaches its apogee 120km above the planet. From Wordnik.com. [Reaching The Final Frontier] Reference
We have taken up very lately the views which Æsop hinted at some thousands of years ago, in his quaint parabolic manner, and which. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, Number 361, November, 1845.] Reference
When some practice is attained, I understand that it is usual to try for a parabolic form at once, as soon as the polishing commences. From Wordnik.com. [On Laboratory Arts] Reference
Comets with parabolic and hyperbolic orbits may be regarded as stray objects which visit our system once, and depart never to return again. From Wordnik.com. [The Astronomy of Milton's 'Paradise Lost'] Reference
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