thumb|right|upright=1.36|Part of a parabola (blue), with various features (other colours). The complete parabola has no endpoints. In this orientation, it extends infinitely to the left, right, and upward. thumb|The parabola is a member of the family of conic sections.
A parabola is a curved shape that you get when you slice through a cone at a certain angle, and it's one of the fundamental curves studied in mathematics because it appears throughout nature and engineering. The curve extends infinitely in certain directions and has special mathematical properties that make it useful for applications like satellite dishes and projectile paths.
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thumb|right|upright=1.36|Part of a parabola (blue), with various features (other colours). The complete parabola has no endpoints. In this orientation, it extends infinitely to the left, right, and upward. thumb|The parabola is a member of the family of conic sections.
In mathematics, a parabola is a plane curve which is mirror-symmetrical and is approximately U-shaped. It fits several superficially different mathematical descriptions, which can all be proved to define exactly the same curves.
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