1570s, from Modern Latin parabola, from Greek parabole "parabola, comparison, analogy; application" (see parable), so called by Apollonius of Perga c. 210 B.C.E. because it is produced by "application" of a given area to a given straight line. It had a different sense in Pythagorean geometry. Related: Parabolic.
中文解释
1. 用表示面积的方程式去拟合("application")曲线或者直线。
实用例句
1. Basketball and throwing events were analyzed on the basis of parabola principles.
基于抛物体运动规律对两类典型的抛物体运动(投掷项目、篮球投篮)进行了分析.
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2. Soviet poet whose collections of verse include Parabola ( 1960 ) and The Triangular Pear ( 1962 ).