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  • noun rare Plural form of parabola.

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  • It seems as if you are suggesting that, if I do a multiple linear regression and one of the dependent variables is a parabola, then I am "mining" the data for parabolae — which is only true if I ONLY fit a parabola and NO OTHER basis functions.

    A Red Noise Spaghetti Diagram « Climate Audit 2005

  • Description: Dwyer did not have an overpowering fastball … But he could ‘distribute an assortment of variegated curves, elipses, hyperbolae and parabolae with … judgement,’ according to a St. Louis writer.

    The Neyer/James Guide To Pitchers Bill James Rob Neyer 2004

  • Description: Dwyer did not have an overpowering fastball … But he could ‘distribute an assortment of variegated curves, elipses, hyperbolae and parabolae with … judgement,’ according to a St. Louis writer.

    The Neyer/James Guide To Pitchers Bill James Rob Neyer 2004

  • Description: Dwyer did not have an overpowering fastball … But he could ‘distribute an assortment of variegated curves, elipses, hyperbolae and parabolae with … judgement,’ according to a St. Louis writer.

    The Neyer/James Guide To Pitchers Bill James Rob Neyer 2004

  • Probant illud parabolae dua?, quacuni Una verfus evangelii hujusce finem, altera in evan* gelio fecundum Lucam continetur.

    Opera omnia sanctorum patrum graecorum: graece et latine 1787

  • He proved that if a body be projected with any velocity in free space, subject only to a central force, varying inversely as the square of the distance, the body must revolve in a curve which may be any one of the sections of a cone -- a circle, ellipse, parabola, or hyperbola; and he found that those comets of which he had observations move in parabolae round the Sun, and are thus subject to the universal law.

    History of Astronomy George Forbes 1892

  • | atur, hoceft | crtangentemin pun cum parabolae reperire.,

    Opera geometrica Torricelli, Evangelista, 1608-1647 1644

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