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

A parabola is the set of points in the plane that lie equidistant from a fixed point, the focus, and a fixed line, the directrix.

From Textbooks ● Dec. 21, 2021

The stone, with the rope trailing it, made a small parabola in the air, and the line, as if with a sigh, fell limply into the river only ninety tails away.

From "Abel's Island" by William Steig

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 last row of the table shows us when the parabolas never intersect the x-axis.

From Textbooks ● May 6, 2020

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

From Textbooks ● May 6, 2020

Take a cone and cut it up; you get circles, ellipses, parabolas, and hyperbolas, depending on how you slice it.

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