how to pronounce parabola

/pɚˈæbələ/

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parabola is pronounced in four syllables

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An example use of parabola in a speech by a native speaker of american english:

“… of a parabola they should right at us a …”

meanings of parabola

noun:

The explicit drawing of a parallel between two essentially dissimilar things, especially with a moral or didactic purpose. A parable.
The conic section formed by the intersection of a cone with a plane parallel to a tangent plane to the cone; the locus of points equidistant from a fixed point (the focus) and line (the directrix).

parabola frequency in english - C2+ level of CEFR

the word parabola occurs in english on average 0.3 times per one million words; this frequency warrants it to be in the study list for C2+ level of language mastery according to CEFR, the Common European Framework of Reference.

topics parabola can be related to

it is hard to perfectly classify words into specific topics since each word can have many context of its use, but our machine-learning models believe that parabola can be often used in the following areas:

1) communication, information, and media;

2) education, science, and technology;