parabola

They interlock, forming a three-dimensional-looking beam comprised of geometric patterns — a rotated hyperbolic parabola .

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 22, 2023

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 ● Mar. 13, 2023

“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 ● Sep. 6, 2022

It is the maximum value of a parabola that opens downward.

From Textbooks ● May 6, 2020

“No. I used geometry and focused on the parabola of my shots. I also knew exactly when to feed you the ball, based on timing and patterns I was seeing on the floor.”

From "The Smartest Kid in the Universe" by Chris Grabenstein

This was not the barefoot frolic I knew from picnics, not the game of lazy parabolas.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2025

The 10,523-seat arena opened in 1964 as an all-concrete structure built around two giant parabolas.

From Seattle Times ● Mar. 3, 2023

The graphs show what the parabolas look like when they to the left or to the right.

From Textbooks ● May 6, 2020

But Newton was the first to propose an exact mathematical form and to use that form to show that the motion of heavenly bodies should be conic sections—circles, ellipses, parabolas, and hyperbolas.

From Textbooks ● Aug. 12, 2015

In later works Archimedes figured out the volumes of parabolas and circles, rotated around a line, which any math student knows are early homework problems in a calculus course.

From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife