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Parabola

💡 Words with a Similar Meaning to "Parabola"

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Word	Definition
semicubical	(mathematics) Of or relating to the square root of the cube of a quantity.
curvenoun	A gentle bend, such as in a road.
hyperbolanoun	(geometry) A conic section formed by the intersection of a cone with a plane that intersects the base of the cone and is not tangent to the cone. The function y(x) = 1/x draws a hyperbola.
paraboloidnoun	(mathematics) Short for elliptic paraboloid [(mathematics) A surface having parabolic cross sections parallel to an axis and elliptical cross sections perpendicular to the axis; especially the surface of revolution of a parabola.]
conic sectionnoun	(geometry) Any of the four distinct shapes that are the intersections of a cone with a plane, namely the circle, ellipse, parabola and hyperbola.
ellipsenoun	(geometry) A closed curve, the locus of a point such that the sum of the distances from that point to two other fixed points (called the foci of the ellipse) is constant; equivalently, the conic section that is the intersection of a cone with a plane that does not intersect the base of the cone.
conjugate axisnoun	(geometry) Either of two axes in a conic section, such that each is parallel to the tangent at the extremity of the other.
conoidnoun	Anything shaped like a cone
paraboloid of revolutionnoun	(geometry) A surface of revolution formed by revolving a parabola around its axis.
conchoidnoun	(mathematics, geometry) Any of a family of curves defined as the locus of points p, such that each p is on a line that passes through a given fixed point P and intersects a given curve, C, and the distance from p to the point of intersection with C is a specified constant (note that for nontrivial cases two such points p satisfy the criteria, and the resultant curve has two parts).
circumconicnoun	(mathematics) A conic section that passes through all the vertices of a triangle
applicatenoun	An applied material; an application
orbiformnoun	(geometry) A plane for which the distance between the points of contact of two nonequal parallel tangents at a circle is the same everywhere.
eccentricitynoun	The quality of being eccentric or odd; any eccentric behaviour.
focal	Belonging to, concerning, or located at a focus.
parameternoun	A value kept constant during an experiment, equation, calculation, or similar, but varied over other versions of the experiment, equation, calculation, etc.
conenoun	Anything in the general shape of a cone.
plane curvenoun	(mathematics) The locus of points in the Euclidean plane that satisfies some geometric or algebraic definition; a curve in a plane (as opposed to higher-dimensional space).
obroundnoun	(geometry) A plane shape consisting of two semicircles connected by parallel lines tangent to their endpoints.
hyperconenoun	(geometry) A four-dimensional surface related to the three-dimensional cone