In mathematics, a parabola is a plane curve which is mirror-symmetrical and is approximately U-shaped. It fits several superficially different mathematical...

Look up parabola, parábola, paràbola, or parabolă in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Look up parabole, parabolé, or parabolë in Wiktionary, the free...

Wikiquote has quotations related to Parabola (song). "Parabola" is a song by American rock band Tool. The song was released as the second single from their...

In mathematics, a cuspidal cubic or semicubical parabola is an algebraic plane curve that has an implicit equation of the form y 2 − a 2 x 3 = 0 {\displaystyle...

In classical mechanics and ballistics, the parabola of safety or safety parabola is the envelope of the parabolic trajectories of projectiles shot from...

Quadrature of the Parabola (Greek: Τετραγωνισμὸς παραβολῆς) is a treatise on geometry, written by Archimedes in the 3rd century BC and addressed to his...

Parabola, also known as Parabola: The Search for Meaning, is a Manhattan-based quarterly magazine on the subjects of mythology and the world's religious...

Metathrinca parabola is a moth in the family Xyloryctidae. It was described by Edward Meyrick in 1914. It is found in southern India. The wingspan is about...

The Parabola Allegory is a Rosicrucian allegory, of unknown authorship, dating from the latter part of the seventeenth century. It is sometimes attributed...

Nannamoria parabola is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Volutidae, the volutes. Nannamoria parabola Garrard, 1960. Retrieved...

Parabola is a double album by jazz composer, arranger, conductor and pianist Gil Evans recorded in Italy in 1978 by Evans with an orchestra featuring Arthur...

defining conic sections, the four types of which are the circle, ellipse, parabola, and hyperbola. In addition, two foci are used to define the Cassini oval...

Parabola GNU/Linux-libre is a free and open-source Linux distribution based on Arch Linux and Arch Linux ARM for the x86-64, i686, and ARMv7 architectures...

Parabola is a monotypic moth genus in the family Gelechiidae erected by Anthonie Johannes Theodorus Janse in 1950. Its only species, Parabola butyraula...

symmetry and no center of symmetry. The term "paraboloid" is derived from parabola, which refers to a conic section that has a similar property of symmetry...

tangents of a given curve meet at a right angle. Examples: The orthoptic of a parabola is its directrix (proof: see below), The orthoptic of an ellipse x 2 a...

intersecting a plane. The three types of conic section are the hyperbola, the parabola, and the ellipse; the circle is a special case of the ellipse, though it...

In quantum mechanics, an atomic orbital (/ˈɔːrbɪtəl/) is a function describing the location and wave-like behavior of an electron in an atom. This function...

one-third power. The graph of the cube function is known as the cubic parabola. Because the cube function is an odd function, this curve has a center...

Parabola Films is a Montreal-based Canadian cinema production company founded by Sarah Spring and Selin Murat, a documentary filmmaker. Parabola Films...

This parabola-shaped lava flow illustrates an application of mathematics in physics — in this case, Galileo's law of falling bodies....

the diagram: The blue parabola is an involute of the red semicubic parabola, which is actually the evolute of the blue parabola.) Proof of the last property:...

In mathematics, a trident curve (also trident of Newton or parabola of Descartes) is any member of the family of curves that have the formula: x y + a...

is called a parabola. The location and size of the parabola, and how it opens, depend on the values of a, b, and c. If a > 0, the parabola has a minimum...

the axis intersects the parabola. From a point on the tangent line to a parabola's vertex, the other tangent line to the parabola is perpendicular to the...

Results". Archived from the original on 30 June 2011. "Ciudad Olímpica: La parábola del suspiro" [Olympic City: The parable of the sigh]. La Vanguardia (in...

hyperbola, called the Kiepert hyperbola and the other is a parabola, called the Kiepert parabola. The Kiepert conics are defined as follows: If the three...

given by Euler's formula. It creates a new failure border by fitting a parabola to the graph of failure for Euler buckling using σ c r = σ y − 1 E ( σ...

hyperbola orthogonally (at right angles). Parabolas have only one focus, so, by convention, confocal parabolas have the same focus and the same axis of...

circles whose centers lie on a parabola and which pass through the vertex of the parabola. Also, if two congruent parabolas are set vertex-to-vertex and...