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Meanings of parabola in English

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Usage of parabola in English
1
Not a specific curve-nota circle or a parabola-buta representative curve.
Quicksilver
2
The data looks like a parabola, but how do you fit that?
Wired
3
I won't because the trajectory doesn't even look close to a parabola.
Wired
4
We are as infallibly lost by an ellipse as by a parabola.
All Around the Moon
5
And felt himself thrown free by Imraith-Nimphais in a tumbling, spiraling parabola!
The darkest road
6
They were descending toward Dulles International on a gentle long parabola.
Timescape
7
Again a tiny arrow traveled towards them in a graceful parabola.
The Wings of the Morning
8
Traced on paper, the course of the tug would be a tight parabola.
Space Tug
9
It all came back to my favorite geometric shape, which is a parabola.
The Council of Dads
10
She holds the card in both hands, thumbs squeezing it into a parabola.
Back on murder
11
Then he tossed the box in a beauteous parabola, arcing into the pit.
The Mammoth Book of Steampunk
12
Closer, the soft parabola of a low-arched portal reveals that it's been carved.
The world without us
13
Is the orbit that of an ellipse, or a circle, or a parabola?
Aether and Gravitation
14
However, the position function should still be a parabola and not a straight line.
Wired
15
The perihelion distance from the sun, which settled the precise form of the parabola.
Off on a Comet! a Journey through Planetary Space
16
A shooting-star swept in a wide parabola to the horizon.
Rung Ho! A Novel
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