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 parabola is the set of points in the plane that lie equidistant from a fixed point, the focus, and a fixed line, the directrix.
From Textbooks ● Dec. 21, 2021
All of a sudden the ellipse becomes a parabola, and all of the lines that converged to a point become parallel lines.
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
Our work so far has only dealt with parabolas that open up or down.
From Textbooks ● Sep. 23, 2020
We can now find the x-intercepts of the two parabolas we looked at.
From Textbooks ● May 6, 2020
The subject that grew out of this critical insight, analytic geometry, is essential to understanding calculus; yet our students are coming out of high school unable to graph straight lines or parabolas.
From "Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences" by John Allen Paulos
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