Question

What is parabola?

Answer 1

a symmetrical open plane curve formed by the intersection of a cone with a plane parallel to its side. The path of a projectile under the influence of gravity ideally follows a curve of this shape.

Answer 2

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Answer 3

rather than ask here and get all kinds of different answers, i would google for a definition

Answer 4

a parabola is a nice curve shape,

it can be concave up or down,

it can the wide or thin

if you plot the squares of the integers (i.e. y = x^2)
you will get something like the curve above

all quadratic equations ax^2 + bx + c = 0

map to parabolas y = ax^2 + bx + c

Answer 5

the coefficient a, determines the width / thinness on the graph
and the term c, determines the height of the vertex of the parabola on the graph