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say it: pur-AB-uh-luh
parabola is a noun meaning "a plane curve formed by the intersection of a right circular cone and a plane parallel to an element of the curve". It is pronounced /pɚˈæbələ/ — pur-AB-uh-luh. It carries one recorded sense.
a plane curve formed by the intersection of a right circular cone and a plane parallel to an element of the curve
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for parabola come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.