Meaning & use
parabolic
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having the curved shape of a parabola, or relating to such a curve.
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The satellite dish has a parabolic shape that focuses signals onto a single receiver.
The rocket followed a parabolic trajectory before falling back to Earth.
A note on using this word
Parabolic is often used loosely outside math and physics to describe something that rises and then falls sharply, or grows extremely fast, as in 'parabolic stock growth.'
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