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parabolas

parabolas is the plural of parabola.

Meaning of parabola

Noun

parabola (plural parabolas or parabolae or parabolæ)

  1. The conic section formed by the intersection of a cone with a plane parallel to a tangent plane to the cone; the locus of points equidistant from a fixed point (the focus) and line (the directrix).
    • And it saves his life. As he's buzzing down a curving, narrow canal, a narrow green parabola appears hanging across the water in front of him, suddenly rising out of the water and snapping into a perfectly straight line at neck level.1992, Neal Stephenson, Snow Crash, page 387
  2. (rhetoric) Synonym of parable.
    Synonyms:
    parable

Questions about parabolas

What is parabolas the plural of?
Parabolas is the plural of parabola.

Words near parabolas in the dictionary

  1. parabolae
  2. parabolai
  3. parabolani
  4. parabolanus
  5. parabolar
  6. parabolas
  7. parabolaster
  8. parabolasters
  9. parabole
  10. paraboles
  11. parabolic

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