Parabola - Law Dictionary Search Results
Home Dictionary Name: parabolaParaboloid
The solid generated by the rotation of a parabola about its axis any surface of the second order whose sections by planes parallel to a given line are parabolas...
parole
parole [Old French, speech, word, prisoner's word of honor to fulfill stated conditions, from Late Latin parabola speech, parable, from Greek parabolē comparison] : a conditional release of a prisoner who has served part of a sentence and who remains under the control of and in the legal custody of a parole authority compare probation ...
Parabola
A kind of curve one of the conic sections formed by the intersection of the surface of a cone with a plane parallel to one of its sides It is a curve any point of which is equally distant from a fixed point called the focus and a fixed straight line called the directrix See Focus...
Paraboliform
Resembling a parabola in form...
Semiparabola
One branch of a parabola being terminated at the principal vertex of the curve...
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