Sentence examples for sort of parabolic from inspiring English sources
It was not the sort of parabolic blast that had made Hafner one of the American League's most feared hitters in recent years, but it was a base hit, and perhaps that should have been reward enough for a slumping slugger.
Frank Gehry, the building's architect, is a singular sort of pop avant-gardist, whose parabolic forms are instantly fixed in the public mind.
Blaise Pascal subsequently used polar coordinates to calculate the length of parabolic arcs.
An important property of parabolic arcs is their invariance under equi-affine transformations: a parabolic arc remains a parabolic arc.
The 3D display would project a sort of hologram image above a light source using a UFO-shaped combination of two parabolic mirrors.
AMELIA LESTER: Briefly in a car and also leaving the hotel QUESTION FROM PABLO : Oh, for a parabolic microphone to train on Prince Phillip JUDITH: Pippa is Kate's sister AMELIA LESTER: I did read Pippa wants to be called Philippa now LIZADONNELLY: The Queen sort of matches the clergy in her yellow IAN PARKER: Did I miss Pippa?
Among the approaches being talked about are some that have been the stuff of science fiction for years: a mass driver, a sort of electromagnetic conveyor belt that would be planted on an asteroid and hurl dirt from its surface, or a solar concentrator, a parabolic mirror that would orbit the body and heat up the surface, creating a plume of vaporized material.
