 | Edward Jacob Boyce - 1878 - 232 σελίδες
...side by side, I PARABOLA ) compare), 1. a comparison (see St. Mark iv. 30, Grk.) ; 2. a conic section formed by the intersection of the surface of a cone with a plane parallel to one of its sides. PARABOLANI — officers in the Primitive Church appointed to attend upon... | |
 | Edward Jacob Boyce - 1878 - 230 σελίδες
...side by side, I PARAROLA ) compare), 1. a comparison (see St. Mark iv. 30, Grk.) ; 2. a conic section formed by the intersection of the surface of a cone with a plane parallel to one of its sides. PARABOLANI — officers in the Primitive Church appointed to attend upon... | |
 | 1890 - 798 σελίδες
...line BE. P. 158. "Parabolic mirrors." Mirrors having their outer surfaces in the form of a parabola, a curve " formed by the intersection of the surface of a cone with a plane parallel to one of its sides." P. 159. "Echelon" (esh'e-lon). A word borrowed from the French, meaning... | |
 | Noah Webster - 1892 - 444 σελίδες
...a. Expressed by parable. Ра-гаЪ'0-la (ра-гаЪ'й-lá), n. One of the conic sections, being a curve formed by the intersection of the surface of a cone with a plane parallel to one of its sides. — Par'a-bol'lc (paVa-bolIk), Far'a-bol'ic-ai (-ï-kai), a. Having the... | |
 | Noah Webster - 1892 - 568 σελίδες
...Par'abol'ic-al (-t-kol), a. Expressed by parable. Pa-rab'o-la (pa-rSb'3-la), n. One of the conic sections, being a curve formed by the intersection of the surface of a cone with a plane parallel to one of its sides. — Par'a-bol'iC (p5r/a-b51Tk), Far'a-bol'ic-al ( -I-kal ), a. Having... | |
 | Noah Webster - 1892 - 568 σελίδες
...Par'abol'ic-al (-T-kal), a. Expressed by parable. Pa-rab'0-la (pa-rab'S-la), n. One of the conic sections, being a curve formed by the intersection of the surface of a cone with a plane parallel to one of its Bides. — Par'a-bOl'lc (pàVà-b5l'îk), Раг'а-bol'ic-al ( -ï-kal ), a.... | |
 | Noah Webster - 1892 - 440 σελίδες
...(-T-kal), a. Expressed by parable. Pa-rab'o-la (pa-raVé-lá), n- One of the conic sections, being a curve formed by the intersection of the surface of a cone with a plane parallel to one of its sides. — Fai'a-bol'lc (pSr'a-bolTk), Pai/a-bol'io-al (-T-kal), a. Having the... | |
 | Noah Webster - 1892 - 356 σελίδες
...allegorical relation of something real. Pa-raVo-la(pà-ràVô-ià),n. One of the conic sections, being n curve formed by the intersection of the surface of a cone with a plane parallel to one of its sides. Раг'а-Ъо1'1с (paVa-bonk), Par'abol'ie al, a. Having the form of... | |
 | 1895 - 646 σελίδες
...called the focus and a fixed straight line called the directrix. A curve — one of the conic sections formed by the intersection of the surface of a cone with a plane parallel to one of its sides ; chiefly used in photography in construction of mirrors or reflectors... | |
 | Pierre Viala, Louis Ravaz - 1901 - 350 σελίδες
...certain age in the Jurassic series. PARABOLA — A kind of geometrical curve; one of the conic sections formed by the intersection of the surface of a cone with a plane parallel to one of it« sides. PARASITE (Bot. )— A plant living upon or in another plant. PARENCHYMA... | |
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One of the conic sections, being a curve formed by the intersection of the surface of a cone with a plane parallel to one of its sides. 
