All parabola synonyms
pa·rab·o·la
P p noun parabola
- camber — A camber is a gradual downward slope from the centre of a road to each side of it.
- catenary — the curve assumed by a heavy uniform flexible cord hanging freely from two points. When symmetrical about the y-axis and intersecting it at y = a, the equation is y = a cosh x/a
- ogee — a double curve, resembling the letter S, formed by the union of a concave and a convex line.
- curvation — the action of curving or bending
- helix — a spiral.
- curlicue — Curlicues are decorative twists and curls, usually carved or made with a pen.
- flexure — the act of flexing or bending.
- halfmoon — the moon when, at either quadrature, half its disk is illuminated.
- chord — A chord is a number of musical notes played or sung at the same time with a pleasing effect.
- incurvation — curved, especially inward.
- menisci — a crescent or a crescent-shaped body.
- curve — A curve is a smooth, gradually bending line, for example part of the edge of a circle.
- meniscus — a crescent or a crescent-shaped body.
- horseshoe — a U -shaped metal plate, plain or with calks, nailed to a horse's hoof to protect it from being injured by hard or rough surfaces.
- ellipse — A regular oval shape, traced by a point moving in a plane so that the sum of its distances from two other points (the foci) is constant, or resulting when a cone is cut by an oblique plane that does not intersect the base.
- horseshoes — a U -shaped metal plate, plain or with calks, nailed to a horse's hoof to protect it from being injured by hard or rough surfaces.
- arched — An arched roof, window, or doorway is curved at the top.
- helices — a native or inhabitant of Corinth.
- hyperbola — the set of points in a plane whose distances to two fixed points in the plane have a constant difference; a curve consisting of two distinct and similar branches, formed by the intersection of a plane with a right circular cone when the plane makes a greater angle with the base than does the generator of the cone. Equation: x 2 /a 2 − y 2 /b 2 = ±1.
- half-moon — the ship in which Henry Hudson made his voyage to explore America in 1609.