parabola
pronunciation
How to pronounce parabola in British English:
UK [pəˈræbələ]
How to pronounce parabola in American English:
US [pəˈræbələ]
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- Noun:
- a plane curve formed by the intersection of a right circular cone and a plane parallel to an element of the curve
Word Origin
- parabola (n.)
- 1570s, from Modern Latin parabola, from Greek parabole "parabola, comparison, analogy; application" (see parable), so called by Apollonius of Perga c. 210 B.C.E. because it is produced by "application" of a given area to a given straight line. It had a different sense in Pythagorean geometry. Related: Parabolic.