parabola
Example Sentences
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The shortage of shells meant Danylo couldn’t fire his gun from a distance as he would an artillery piece, the round arcing in a parabola.
From Los Angeles Times
They interlock, forming a three-dimensional-looking beam comprised of geometric patterns — a rotated hyperbolic parabola .
From Los Angeles Times
Among his discoveries was a need to move his takeoff point farther back for higher jumps, so he could change the apex of the parabola shape of his jump to clear the bar.
From Seattle Times
Seen from the ground, their ephemeral parabolas look like calligraphic brushstrokes.
From Washington Post
“The parabola is the perfect concentrator of all energy to a single focal point,” said Eversley, now 81, who remembers being the only African American in the school of engineering at Carnegie Mellon.
From New York Times
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