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parabolic
adjective as in allegorical
Strongest matches
Weak matches
- emblematic
- illustrative
- symbolizing
- typifying
Example Sentences
At the four-minute mark, the capsule will reach the peak of its parabolic flight and then begin to descend back into the atmosphere.
He wasn’t really offering a voyage into space, but a parabolic ballistic shot to the edge of space and, after a fleeting few minutes of weightlessness, a glide back to earth with spectacular views.
They’ll also go on parabolic flights that simulate weightlessness.
While a parabolic dish has the useful property of being sensitive to a fairly large area of sky, if a candidate signal is detected, there is no way of knowing exactly where it came from.
Bitcoin has made parabolic runs upward before, notably December 2017 and mid-2019, before major tumbles.
Farther from the center they become parabolic, but they are quite good over the entire plate, 3¼ by 4¼ inches.
Its depth at the crown is 33 ft., and its centre line follows nearly the parabolic line of pressures.
In spans over 200 ft. it is economical to have one horizontal boom and one polygonal (approximately parabolic) boom.
The posterior are intermixed with round and square pieces, and the extremity of the armour near the tail is of a parabolic figure.
We use a small atomic cavity radiator at one end of which is a rough relux parabolic filter.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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