parabolic

Then usage, which everybody expected to increase as the price fell, went absolutely parabolic.

Unlike the more common ballistic missiles, which travel in a fairly predictable arc – a parabolic curve - hypersonic glide vehicles can move in an erratic way, manoeuvred in final flight towards their target.

The Beavers added tallies in each of the next two innings, with Caraway launching a parabolic shot to left field in the fifth inning.

“It’s parabolic, absurdist, quirky family comedy, and you could see a world in which a network or studio may think, ‘Let’s make it grounded.’

Oyelowo, also an executive producer, has a ready description of the tone: “it’s a parabolic surrealist absurdist family comedy,” he said in an interview.