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- noun Plural form of
parabola .
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Examples
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Where the door frame gapped away from the kitchen door, snow sprayed through in parabolas.
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Eight so-called parabolas in all, eight spurts of weightlessness.
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They call them parabolas, which is little more than just an elaborate roller-coaster ride.
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* Graphing points, quadrants, lines, and curves such as parabolas No Mirrors below, please!
AvaxHome Alexpal 2010
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Sometimes more complex shapes, such as parabolas in subintervals of the partition.
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He swings free demotically, not to mention culturally, and the parabolas can get wobbly.
Hail, the Conquering Heroine Scott Eyman 2012
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“Excuse me?” she asked, eyebrows curved high like the parabolas of infield fly balls.
Proclivities T.R. Wolfe 2011
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Written as a letter to his friend Dositheus, the work presents 24 propositions regarding parabolas, culminating in a proof that the area of a parabolic segment (the region enclosed by a parabola and a line) is 4/3 that of a certain inscribed triangle.
Capsule Summaries of the Great Books of the Western World Jonathan Aquino 2009
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After establishing an initial mood of insecure majesty, Davis leads us through parabolas of passion and collapse until he reaches the equally insecure calm at the close.
LSO/Davis/Kotla - review Tim Ashley 2010
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Predicting parabolas is something humans just seem to find intriguing.
Tracing Those Angry Birds to the Dawn of Man Matt Ridley 2011
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