parabolic : Idioms & Phrases

• a paraboloid; a conoid whose directing curve is a parabola. See Conoid.

Webster 1913

• noun (mathematics) geometry based on Euclid's axioms
  Euclidean geometry; elementary geometry.
  

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• noun a parabolic reflector for light radiation
  

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• (Opt.), a mirror having a paraboloidal surface which gives for parallel rays (as those from very distant objects) images free from aberration. It is used in reflecting telescopes.

Webster 1913

• noun a concave reflector used to produce a parallel beam when the source is placed at its focus or to focus an incoming parallel beam
  paraboloid reflector.
  

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• the solid generated by revolving the portion of a parabola cut off by a line drawn at right angles to the axis of the curve, about that line as an axis.

Webster 1913

• a spiral curve conceived to be formed by the periphery of a semiparabola when its axis is wrapped about a circle; also, any other spiral curve having an analogy to the parabola.

Webster 1913