semiparabola

English

Etymology

semi- +‎ parabola

Noun

semiparabola (plural semiparabolas or semiparabolae)

1. (geometry) One branch of a parabola, terminating at the principal vertex of the curve.

Related terms

• semiparabolic

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “semiparabola”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)