Parabola
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- The conic section formed by the intersection of a cone with a plane parallel to a tangent plane to the cone; the locus of points equidistant from a fixed point (the focus) and line (the directrix).
- The explicit drawing of a parallel between two essentially dissimilar things, especially with a moral or didactic purpose. A parable.
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See also
- Catenary
- Ellipse
- Hyperbola
- Parabolic dome
- Parabolic reflector
- Parabolic partial differential equation
- Paraboloid
- Quadratic equation
- Quadratic function
- Rotating furnace, paraboloids produced by rotation
- Universal parabolic constant
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