They were probably turning into a parabola right from the start.

At the top of the parabola he put down his nose.

Usually the first few parabolas are for getting used to the environment, and then you get to work.

But the parabola of her impetus was not yet come to rest.

I thought the equation was a parabola, but that does not seem quite right.

This was also known as cubic parabola at that time.

We reached the top of our parabola and began to descend.

The simplest example in modern language is the area of the parabola.

A simple example of a curve is the parabola, shown to the right.

Was each of the 40 parabolas I experienced exactly like the graphic?

In this case, with only three data points, a parabola is an exact fit.

Parabolas can open up, down, left, right, or in some other sensible direction.

This calculation can be used for a parabola in any orientation.

Which very likely meant the dome, right down to the floor, was a nearly perfect parabola.

Consider the parabola in the figure to the right.

I lifted straight up for some fifty miles; a high parabola.

On the front screen, the Enterprise was well along the second leg of her parabola.

In other words, the parabola represents the "external" cause of what we experience.

Similarly vertical parabolas are of the form where n is an even number.

Lower down, in a terrible parabola, another streak began burning through.

On our flight, we ranged about 25 - 32 seconds per parabola.

The machines were bounding across the ground in low parabolas.

The mug and the steaming liquid made a very pretty parabola.

But if you throw a live bird in the air it will not describe a parabola and come to rest on the ground.

Before, the ball had moved in clean parabolas, broken only by the players strokes.