parabolic

parabola | American Dictionary

parabola
noun[ C ]
us/pəˈræb·ə·lə/
geometry
a U-shaped curve
geometry
A parabola is the graph (= drawing) of a quadratic equation

Examples of parabola

parabola
Here we restrict ourselves to quantify the strength of the thermal lensing and hence fit a parabola to the refractive index profiles.
It was prepared in order to determine the degree of elevation for parabolas of various heights but with the same width of 465.
The procedure was applied to the 3 m focal length off-axis parabola.
The positions are represented after pattern recognition by matching experimental parabolas to the theoretical ones.
Above the gain 8, the volume ignition happens, as seen from the highly deformed dashed parabolas for these higher gains.
The parabolas are labelled: inside by the time and outside by the values of 1 and 2 when finite.
Neither a straight line nor a parabola can be fitted reasonably to these data.
Furthermore, saddle connections can occur along invariant lines of (13), corresponding to invariant parabolas of (11).
For the parameters we choose, f, is a concave-up parabola.
But this solution does not lead to any better result than that which he had achieved by comparing empirically the catenary with a parabola.
Figure shows that the parabolas are not perfect.
This was done such that the point under consideration was at the middle of the three radial points through which the parabola passed.
I made this experiment several times and found that it works, especially in the case of parabolas with an elevation of less than 45 degrees.
For the final discovery, it was necessary, of course, that he recognize the parabola in his drawing.
The focused beam from the parabola was then sent through pinhole targets and onto a large area calorimeter.
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