In this page you can discover 8 synonyms, antonyms, idiomatic expressions, and related words for parabola, like: eccentricity, ellipse, parallelogram, paraboloid, hyperbola, polar-coordinates, ellipsoid and vector-field.
What does parabola mean?
parabola. noun. pa·rab·o·la pə-ˈrab-ə-lə : a curve formed by the intersection of a cone with a plane parallel to a straight line in its surface : a curve formed by a point moving so that its distance from a fixed point is equal to its distance from a fixed line. : something that is bowl-shaped.
What is another term for parabolic function?
The parabolic function can also be considered as a quadratic function. The general expression of parabolic function is of the form f(x) = = ax2 + bx + c, which is similar to a quadratic expression.