Usually means: Curve, mirror-symmetrical, conic section.
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  1. parabola: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. parabola: Merriam-Webster
  3. parabola: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. parabola: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. parabola: Collins English Dictionary
  6. parabola: Vocabulary.com
  7. Parabola, parabola: Wordnik
  8. parabola: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. parabola: Wiktionary
  10. parabola: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. parabola: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. parabola: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. parabola: Dictionary.com
  14. parabola: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. Parabola (album), Parabola (disambiguation), Parabola (magazine), Parabola (operating system), Parabola (software), Parabola (song), Parabola: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Parabola: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. parabola: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. parabola: Rhymezone
  19. Parabola, parabola, parbola: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. parabola: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. parabola: FreeDictionary.org
  22. parabola: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. parabola: TheFreeDictionary.com

Art (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. parabola: ArtLex Lexicon of Visual Art Terminology
  2. Silva Rhetoricae: The Forest of Rhetoric (No longer online)

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  1. Construction Term Glossary (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. parabola: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
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  2. parabola: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. PARABOLA: Acronym Finder
  2. parabola: Wordcraft Dictionary

Science (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. Parabola: Visual of Special Plane Curves
  2. A Glossary of Mathematical Terms (No longer online)
  3. Parabola: Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics
  4. parabola, parabola: PlanetMath Encyclopedia
  5. PARABOLA: Zoom Astronomy Glossary

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Parabola: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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noun:  (geometry) The conic section formed by the intersection of a cone with a plane parallel to a tangent plane to the cone; the locus of points equidistant from a fixed point (the focus) and line (the directrix).
noun:  (rhetoric) The explicit drawing of a parallel between two essentially dissimilar things, especially with a moral or didactic purpose. A parable.

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