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

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