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899 words, approx. 3 pages Geometrically, a parabola is the set of all points in the plane which are equally distant from a fixed point, called the focus, and a fixed line, called the directrix. We will say more about this geometric definition below. Algebraically, a parabola is... summary from source:
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144 words, approx. 1 pagesOpen curve, one of the conic sections. It results when a right circular cone intersects a plane that is parallel to an edge of the cone. It is also the path of a point moving so that its distance from a fixed line (directrix) is always equal to its... summary from source:
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In mathematics, the parabola (pronounced /pəˈræbələ/, from the Greek παραβολή) is a conic section generated by the intersection of a right circular conical surface and a plane parallel to a generating straight line of that surface. A... 
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 Mathematics Teaching My accidental parabola
03/01/2006: 362 words, approx. 1 pages I was working with my Y8 class this week on straight line graphs. I was asking pupils to invent examples of equations that would give straight line graphs and say how they would look. To check, I was entering them into a graph-plotting program... summary from source:
Publishers Weekly Parabola offers new audio series for children.
01/18/1991: 396 words, approx. 1 pages Parabola Offers New Audio Series for Children On the heels of Parabola's hugely successful audio and video versions of Joseph Campbell and The Power of Myth, Parabola Audio Library, an imprint of the Society for the Study of Myth and Tradition, has... summary from source:
 AP Features Doctors to Perform Zero-Gravity Surgery
9/27/2006: 340 words, approx. 1 pages A team of French doctors planned to slice a cyst off a man's arm Wednesday in the world's first zero-gravity surgery, operating aboard an airplane soaring and diving in and out of weightlessness. The experiment is part of... summary from source:
AP Features Famed astrophysicist, imprisoned in his body by ALS, flies weightless aboard jet
4/26/2007: 602 words, approx. 2 pagesFree of his wheelchair and tethered only to heart rate and blood pressure monitors, astrophysicist Stephen Hawking on Thursday fulfilled a dream of floating weightless on a zero-gravity jet, a step he hopes leads to further space adventures."It was amazing," Hawking said after the flight.The...
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