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Word: Parabola
Speech Type: Noun
Etymology:
late 16th century: modern Latin, from Greek parabolē ‘placing side by side, application’, from para- ‘beside’ + bolē ‘a throw’ (from the verb ballein)
Audio Pronunciation:
Phonetic Spelling:
pəˈrabələ
Dialects: British English
Definition:
a symmetrical open plane curve formed by the intersection of a cone with a plane parallel to its side. The path of a projectile under the influence of gravity follows a curve of this shape.
Short Definition:symmetrical open plane curve formed by intersection of cone with plane parallel to its side
