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 nonlinear system could be representative of a parabola and a circle, where the vertex of the parabola meets the circle and the branches also intersect the circle, hence three solutions.

From Textbooks ● Dec. 21, 2021

Colonel Meecham watched as an F-8 lifted off an unseen airway, cleared the treeline, thundered eastward, accelerating and rising in a clean parabola.

From "The Great Santini" by Pat Conroy

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

If we interchange the x and y in our previous equations for parabolas, we get the equations for the parabolas that open 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