Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Of or similar to a parable.
- adjective Of or having the form of a parabola or paraboloid.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Of or pertaining to a parable; of the nature of a parable.
- Of or pertaining to parabole; of the nature of parabole.
- A parabola so approaching a curve that their distance apart becomes and remains less than any given distance, though never zero.
- noun A parabola or paraboloid.
- Having the form or outline of a. parabola; of, pertaining to, or resembling a parabola.
- Having only one point at infinity, or otherwise determined in character by the coalescence of two quantities.
- y = a +
bx +cx +dx +ex + etc. - A space in which the sum of the three angles of every triangle is equal to two right angles: so called because the two points at infinity on every straight line in such space coincide; also, every point in every plane in such a space is a point of no curvature, and is therefore a parabolic point.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Of the nature of a parable; expressed by a parable or figure; allegorical.
- adjective Having the form or nature of a parabola; pertaining to, or resembling, a parabola.
- adjective Having a form like that generated by the revolution of a parabola, or by a line that moves on a parabola as a directing curve.
- adjective a paraboloid; a conoid whose directing curve is a parabola. See
Conoid . - adjective (Opt.) a mirror having a paraboloidal surface which gives for parallel rays (as those from very distant objects) images free from aberration. It is used in reflecting telescopes.
- adjective the solid generated by revolving the portion of a parabola cut off by a line drawn at right angles to the axis of the curve, about that line as an axis.
- adjective a spiral curve conceived to be formed by the periphery of a semiparabola when its axis is wrapped about a circle; also, any other spiral curve having an analogy to the parabola.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Of, or pertaining to, or in the shape of a
parabola orparaboloid - adjective Of or pertaining to a
parable - noun mathematics A parabolic
function ,equation etc
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective having the form of a parabola
- adjective resembling or expressed by parables
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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British space tourist and adventurer Richard Garriott, the son of an astronaut, will officiate at the ceremony during the 90-minute flight, which includes 15 rollercoaster-type dives, known as parabolic arcs, which last up to 30 seconds.
A Zero Gravity Wedding For Two Space Fanatics | Impact Lab 2009
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British space tourist and adventurer Richard Garriott, the son of an astronaut, will officiate at the ceremony during the 90-minute flight, which includes 15 rollercoaster-type dives, known as parabolic arcs, which last up to 30 seconds.
A Zero Gravity Wedding For Two Space Fanatics | Impact Lab 2009
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I have heard of a wonderful mirror known to science, which is called the parabolic mirror.
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That is called a parabolic vertical mania- and it subsequently collapsed into panic selling.
Forbes.com: News Robert Lenzner 2011
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Workers assemble a pilot solar collector known as a parabolic trough during testing for the proposed solar power plant near Blythe, Calif.
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This steepness would be described as a parabolic move on the chart by stock traders.
TradingMarkets 2010
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This steepness would be described as a parabolic move on the chart by stock traders.
TradingMarkets 2010
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Workers assemble a pilot solar collector known as a parabolic trough during testing for the proposed solar power plant near Blythe, Calif.
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All three power plants use curved mirrors called parabolic troughs to reflect and concentrate the sunlight to heat up liquid inside tubes for harvesting steam.
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Andasol 1 is a solar-thermal power station and what is known as a parabolic trough power station.
Energy News - Energy Technology - Energy Business - Energy and the Environment 2009
shanvrolijk commented on the word parabolic
But whatever the source of this legend, and irrespective of whether it is of Jewish or Christian origin, the fact remains that it is used in the Qur'an in a purely parabolic sense: namely, as an illustration of God's power to bring about death (or "sleep") and resurrection (or "awakening'); and, secondly, as an allegory of the piety that induces men to abandon a wicked or frivolous world in order to keep their faith unsullied, and of God's recognition of that faith by His bestowal of a spiritual awakening which transcends time and death
The message of the quran by muhammad asad, al kahfi
January 31, 2018