- Wall Street Journal Crossword
- January 4 2024
- Shape with a focus and directrix
Shape with a focus and directrix
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| Rank | Answer | Clue | Publisher | | 99% | PARABOLA | Shape with a focus and directrix | Wall Street Journal |
Definition
| • | A kind of 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. It is a curve, any point of which is equally distant from a fixed point, called the focus, and a fixed straight line, called the directrix. See Focus. |
| • | One of a group of curves defined by the equation y = axn where n is a positive whole number or a positive fraction. For the cubical parabola n = 3; for the semicubical parabola n = /. See under Cubical, and Semicubical. The parabolas have infinite branches, but no rectilineal asymptotes. |
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