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parabola

/pəˈræbələ/noun

उच्चारण परैबल

परवलय

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noun
  1. 1

    [C] mathematics

    a curve like the path of a ball that is thrown into the air and falls back to the ground; in mathematics, the set of all points that are the same distance from a fixed point and a fixed straight line

    परवलय

    • The graph of y = x² is a parabola.
    • A ball kicked into the air follows a path close to a parabola.
◇Word family
parabolic adjective
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Do not confuse parabola (a curve in mathematics) and parable (a short story that teaches a moral lesson).

Parabola (गणित का एक वक्र, परवलय) और parable (नैतिक शिक्षा देने वाली छोटी कहानी, दृष्टांत) में भ्रम न करें।