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Parabolic usually refers to something in a shape of a parabola, but may also refer to a parable.
Parabolic may refer to:
In mathematics:
In elementary mathematics, especially elementary geometry:
Parabolic coordinates
Parabolic cylindrical coordinates
parabolic Möbius transformation
Parabolic geometry (disambiguation)
Parabolic spiral
Parabolic line
In advanced mathematics:
Parabolic cylinder function
Parabolic induction
Parabolic Lie algebra
Parabolic partial differential equation
In physics:
Parabolic trajectory
In technology:
Parabolic antenna
Parabolic microphone
Parabolic reflector
Parabolic trough - a type of solar thermal energy collector
Parabolic flight - a way of achieving weightlessness
Parabolic action, or parabolic bending curve - a term often used to refer to a progressive bending curve in fishing rods.
In commodities and stock markets:
Parabolic SAR - a chart pattern in which prices rise or fall with an increasingly steeper slope
Other
Parabolic dune, a sand formation
Topics referred to by the same term
This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Parabolic. If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article.
A parabolic (or paraboloid or paraboloidal) reflector (or dish or mirror) is a reflective surface used to collect or project energy such as light, sound...
A parabolic antenna is an antenna that uses a parabolic reflector, a curved surface with the cross-sectional shape of a parabola, to direct the radio...
parabolas. The parabola has many important applications, from a parabolic antenna or parabolic microphone to automobile headlight reflectors and the design...
In astrodynamics or celestial mechanics a parabolic trajectory is a Kepler orbit with the eccentricity equal to 1 and is an unbound orbit that is exactly...
A parabolic trough is a type of solar thermal collector that is straight in one dimension and curved as a parabola in the other two, lined with a polished...
A parabolic partial differential equation is a type of partial differential equation (PDE). Parabolic PDEs are used to describe a wide variety of time-dependent...
A parabolic microphone is a microphone that uses a parabolic reflector to collect and focus sound waves onto a transducer, in much the same way that a...
Parabolic geometry may refer to: Parabolic geometry, former name for Euclidean geometry, a comprehensive and deductive mathematical system Parabolic geometry...
(parabola, ellipse, hyperbola) then the solid cylinder is said to be parabolic, elliptic and hyperbolic, respectively. For a right circular cylinder...
circular orbit, values between 0 and 1 form an elliptic orbit, 1 is a parabolic escape orbit (or capture orbit), and greater than 1 is a hyperbola. The...
three dimensions has a parabolic point when the Gaussian curvature is zero. Typically such points lie on a curve called the parabolic line which separates...
Parabolic subgroup may refer to: a parabolic subgroup of a reflection group a subgroup of an algebraic group that contains a Borel subgroup This disambiguation...
Parabolic coordinates are a two-dimensional orthogonal coordinate system in which the coordinate lines are confocal parabolas. A three-dimensional version...
mathematics, parabolic induction is a method of constructing representations of a reductive group from representations of its parabolic subgroups. If...
A parabolic arch is an arch in the shape of a parabola. In structures, their curve represents an efficient method of load, and so can be found in bridges...
parabolic cylindrical coordinates are a three-dimensional orthogonal coordinate system that results from projecting the two-dimensional parabolic coordinate...
between a Borel subgroup B and the ambient group G are called parabolic subgroups. Parabolic subgroups P are also characterized, among algebraic subgroups...
and to cook rice for four people in 4 hours. With a high performing parabolic solar cooker, you may be able to grill a steak in minutes. However, depending...
A parabolic torus reflector antenna is a quasi-parabolic antenna, where the defining parabola is not rotated around the main transmission axis, but around...
basic dune types are recognized: crescentic, linear, star, dome, and parabolic. Dune areas may occur in three forms: simple (isolated dunes of basic...
A parabolic loudspeaker is a loudspeaker which seeks to focus its sound in coherent plane waves either by reflecting sound output from a speaker driver...
title Parabolic constant. If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Parabolic constant...
reflection groups, the parabolic subgroups are a special kind of subgroup. The precise definition of which subgroups are parabolic depends on context—for...
photovoltaics. When compared to "traditional" imaging optics (such as parabolic reflectors or fresnel lenses), the main advantages of nonimaging optics...
has a curvilinear asymptote y = x2 + 2x + 3, which is known as a parabolic asymptote because it is a parabola rather than a straight line. Asymptotes...
Successive parabolic interpolation is a technique for finding the extremum (minimum or maximum) of a continuous unimodal function by successively fitting...
curving shape that causes the ski to turn smoothly. One disadvantage to the parabolic shape is that it was much wider at the tip and tail, producing a design...
In stock and securities market technical analysis, parabolic SAR (parabolic stop and reverse) is a method devised by J. Welles Wilder Jr., to find potential...
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