What is a parabola?

A parabola is a mathematical shape that you often see on a graph and is where you get an arch by moving a point that stays equidistant from a fixed point.

It is usually the shape formed by instance from a curve containing some sort of square term.

It is also the shape of the path of body that falls through the air freely.

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