"parabola" meaning in English

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Noun

IPA: /pəˈɹæbələ/ Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vininn126-parabola.wav [US] Forms: parabolas [plural], parabolae [plural], parabolæ [plural]
enPR: pərăb'ələ Etymology: Borrowed from New Latin parabola, from Ancient Greek παραβολή (parabolḗ), from παραβάλλω (parabállō, “I set side by side”), from παρά (pará, “beside”) + βάλλω (bállō, “I throw”). Doublet of parable, parole, and palaver. Etymology templates: {{root|en|ine-pro|*gʷelH-}}, {{bor|en|NL.|parabola}} New Latin parabola, {{der|en|grc|παραβολή|}} Ancient Greek παραβολή (parabolḗ), {{m|grc|παραβάλλω||I set side by side}} παραβάλλω (parabállō, “I set side by side”), {{m|grc|παρά||beside}} παρά (pará, “beside”), {{m|grc|βάλλω||I throw}} βάλλω (bállō, “I throw”), {{doublet|en|parable|parole|palaver}} Doublet of parable, parole, and palaver Head templates: {{en-noun|s|parabolae|parabolæ}} parabola (plural parabolas or parabolae or parabolæ)
  1. (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). Categories (topical): Curves, Functions, Geometry Translations (a conic section): ባላ (bala) (Amharic), παραβολή (parabolḗ) [feminine] (Ancient Greek), قَطْعٌ مُكَافِئ (qaṭʕun mukāfiʔ) [masculine] (Arabic), شَلْجَمِيّ (šaljamiyy) [masculine] (Arabic), عَدَسِي (ʕadasī) [masculine] (Arabic), պարաբոլ (parabol) (Armenian), пара́бала (parábala) [feminine] (Belarusian), পরাবৃত্ত (porabritto) (Bengali), пара́бола (parábola) [feminine] (Bulgarian), paràbola [feminine] (Catalan), halitok (Cebuano), 拋物線 (Chinese Mandarin), 抛物线 (pāowùxiàn) (Chinese Mandarin), parabola (Czech), parabel [common-gender] (Danish), parabool (Dutch), parabolo (Esperanto), parabil [masculine] (Faroese), paraabeli (Finnish), parabole [feminine] (French), parábola [feminine] (Galician), პარაბოლა (ṗarabola) (Georgian), Parabel [feminine] (German), παραβολή (paravolí) [feminine] (Greek), પરવલય (parvalya) (Gujarati), palapola (Hawaiian), פָּרָבּוֹלָה (parábola) [feminine] (Hebrew), परवलय (paravlay) (Hindi), parabola (Hungarian), fleygbogi [masculine] (Icelandic), parabóil (Irish), parabola [feminine] (Italian), 放物線 (hōbutsusen) (alt: ほうぶつせん) (Japanese), ប៉ារ៉ាបូល (paaraaboul) (Khmer), 포물선 (pomulseon) (alt: 抛物線) (Korean), parabola (Latvian), parabolė (Lithuanian), парабола (parabola) [feminine] (Macedonian), പരവലയം (paravalayaṁ) (Malayalam), परवलय (paravlay) (Marathi), parabel [masculine] (Norwegian Bokmål), parabel [masculine] (Norwegian Nynorsk), سهمی (sahmi) (Persian), parabola [feminine] (Polish), parábola [feminine] (Portuguese), пара́бола (parábola) [feminine] (Russian), пара̀бола [Cyrillic, feminine] (Serbo-Croatian), paràbola [Roman, feminine] (Serbo-Croatian), parabola [feminine] (Slovak), parabola [feminine] (Slovene), parábola [feminine] (Spanish), parabel [common-gender] (Swedish), పరావలయం (parāvalayaṁ) (Telugu), พาราโบลา (paa-raa-boo-lâa) (Thai), parabol (Turkish), пара́бола (parábola) [feminine] (Ukrainian), parabôn (Vietnamese)
    Sense id: en-parabola-en-noun-n-UX~9BQ Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with topic categories using raw markup Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 81 19 Disambiguation of English entries with topic categories using raw markup: 84 16 Topics: geometry, mathematics, sciences Disambiguation of 'a conic section': 95 5
  2. (rhetoric) The explicit drawing of a parallel between two essentially dissimilar things, especially with a moral or didactic purpose. A parable. Tags: rhetoric Categories (topical): Rhetoric Synonyms: parable
    Sense id: en-parabola-en-noun-~Pjc6iHO
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Related terms: circle, conic section, ellipse, hyperbola

Inflected forms

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          "alt": "ほうぶつせん",
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          "code": "ko",
          "lang": "Korean",
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      "code": "sh",
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      "code": "sh",
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