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Parabolic

Forms which resemble a parabola in outline.
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The former stops one (parabolically) in one's tracks, forcing one to struggle for meaning ("Violence: The Strong and the Weak," Film Quarterly 46.4 [1993]: 16-22.) Critics usually consider Tarantino's violence weak.
"Reading Dubliners Parabolically." James Joyce Quarterly 47:2 (Winter 2010): 213-29.
For the position command signal increasing parabolically, the steady-state position error is larger or equal to 0, depending on the type of controllers and feed-forward command.
Zhong, "Shape retrieval based on parabolically fitted curvature scale-space maps," in Intelligent Science and Intelligent Data Engineering, vol.
One can see (Figure 2) that the energy varies parabolically with respect to [PHI] and has periodicity of [[PHI].sub.0].
These curves also indicate that for axial distance, exponentially increasing density profile plasma has low value of ([f.sub.min]) as compared to the value obtained for without density profile, linear density profile, and parabolically increasing density profile plasma.
Based on the equation above, each point velocity distributed parabolically with radius r; the largest velocity is on the pipe axis as r = 0:
See also Rossetti's "Old and New Art" sonnets where post-Renaissance paintings are characterized as "soulless self-reflections of man's skill" and Victorian painters are urged, first discursively and then parabolically, to look to "the lights of the great Past, new-lit" as a means of enabling "Art [to] ...
"I settled on a graphite rod that reacts like glass, but doesn't bend parabolically. It may have to do with the way smallmouths slash at baits that makes that blank more efficient at setting hooks.
A sage responds by saying (parabolically) that we can overcome all these real-life problems simply by ourselves "becoming parables" (Kafka 457).
In the last few years, I have been trying, if only in a limited way, to understand the impact of this new situation on stipendiary/sessional employment, a topic to which I'll return, somewhat parabolically, in a moment.
World usage and consumption have increased parabolically every year and its properties are improved constantly.
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