parabola
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They interlock, forming a three-dimensional-looking beam comprised of geometric patterns — a rotated hyperbolic parabola .
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 22, 2023
Among his discoveries was a need to move his takeoff point farther back for higher jumps, so he could change the apex of the parabola shape of his jump to clear the bar.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 13, 2023
“The parabola is the perfect concentrator of all energy to a single focal point,” said Eversley, now 81, who remembers being the only African American in the school of engineering at Carnegie Mellon.
From New York Times ● Sep. 6, 2022
A nonlinear system could be representative of a parabola and a circle, where the vertex of the parabola meets the circle and the branches also intersect the circle, hence three solutions.
From Textbooks ● Dec. 21, 2021
Triangles and circles were easy to measure, but slightly more irregular curves like the parabola were beyond the ken of the Greek mathematicians of the day.
From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife
This was not the barefoot frolic I knew from picnics, not the game of lazy parabolas.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2025
The 10,523-seat arena opened in 1964 as an all-concrete structure built around two giant parabolas.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 3, 2023
The last row of the table shows us when the parabolas never intersect the x-axis.
From Textbooks ● May 6, 2020
It is not uncommon for bridges to be constructed using parabolas as we will see in the next example.
From Textbooks ● May 6, 2020
Thus, Kepler’s point at infinity proved that parabolas and ellipses are actually the same thing.
From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife
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