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

For the following exercises, rewrite the given equation in standard form, and then determine the vertex focus and directrix of the parabola.

From Textbooks ● Sep. 23, 2020

Archimedes studied the properties of the parabola, and it is here that he first started toying with the infinite.

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

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

Previously, we learned to graph vertical parabolas from the general form or the standard form using properties.

From Textbooks ● May 6, 2020

We are now going to look at horizontal parabolas.

From Textbooks ● May 6, 2020

This was the beginning of the discipline of projective geometry, where mathematicians look at the shadows and projections of geometric figures to uncover hidden truths even more powerful than the equivalence of parabolas and ellipses.

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