Parabola With Focus and Directrix
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Description: Illustration of a parabola - a curve which is the locus of a point that moves in a plane so that its distance from a fixed point in the plane is always equal to its distance from a fixed line in the plane.
Source: G.A. Wentworth Plane And Solid Geometry (Boston: Ginn & Company, 1899) 409
Keywords: conic sections, section, parabola, parabolas, directrix, focus
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