Parabolic mirrors were described and studied in classical antiquity by the mathematician Diocles in his work On Burning Mirrors.

Parabolic mirrors are used in most modern reflecting telescopes and in satellite dishes and radar receivers.

Parabolic mirrors were also studied by the physicist Ibn Sahl in the 10th century.

Parabolic mirrors are one of many shapes for a burning-glass.

Parabolic mirrors work well with objects near the center of the image they produce, ( light traveling parallel to the mirror's optical axis ), but towards the edge of that same field of view they suffer from off axis aberrations:

Parabolic arches were introduced in construction by the Spanish architect Antoni Gaudí, who admired the structural system of Gothic style, but for the buttresses, which he termed “ architectural crutches ”.

* Parabolic figure skating blades were first introduced by HD Sports in order to employ new scientific developments in the creation of figure skating blades.

On 29 May 1777 Mudge was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society, and in the same year was awarded the Copley medal for his ‘ Directions for making the best Composition for the Metals for reflecting Telescopes ; together with a Description of the Process for Grinding, Polishing, and giving the great Speculum the true Parabolic Curve ,’ which were communicated by the author to the society, and printed in the Philosophical Transactions ( 1777, lxvii.

Parabolic reflectors are also a popular alternative for increasing wireless signal strength.

Parabolic antennas are also classified by the type of feed, that is, how the radio waves are supplied to the antenna:

Parabolic subgroups P are also characterized, among algebraic subgroups, by the condition that G / P is a complete variety.

Parabolic compass designed by Leonardo da Vinci

Parabolic shape formed by a liquid surface under rotation.

Parabolic mirror showing Foucault shadow patterns made by knife edge inside radius of curvature R ( red X ), at R and outside R.

File: TV antenna. JPG | Parabolic antenna by Himalaya Television Nepal

* Parabolic Projectile Motion: Shooting a Harmless Tranquilizer Dart at a Falling Monkey by Roberto Castilla-Meléndez, Roxana Ramírez-Herrera, and José Luis Gómez-Muñoz, The Wolfram Demonstrations Project.

Parabolic antennas are distinguished by their shapes:

Parabolic shape formed by a liquid surface under rotation.

* Parabolic geometry ( differential geometry ): The homogeneous space defined by a semisimple Lie group modulo a parabolic subgroup, or the curved analog of such a space

In the field of technical analysis, Parabolic SAR ( SAR-stop and reverse ) is a method devised by J. Welles Wilder, Jr., to find trends in market prices or securities.

* Offset-fed Parabolic Dish Antennas by Paul Wade

The transmission signal of the up-link, of relatively high power ( 1, 2, or 5 watts for common VSAT equipment ) originating from BUC ,( block up converter ) and the very low power received signal power ( µ-volts ) coming from the antenna ( aerial ) to the LNB receiver unit, in this case are at an angle of 90 ° relative to each other, are both coupled together at the feed-horn focal-point of the Parabolic antenna.

** Parabolic cylindrical coordinates

Parabolic reflectors are used to collect energy from a distant source ( for example sound waves or incoming star light ) and bring it to a common focal point, thus correcting spherical aberration found in simpler spherical reflectors.

Parabolic geometries include many of those of interest in research and applications of Cartan connections, such as the following examples:

Parabolic mirror wok with optical illusion

* WiFi: Parabolic Dish with BiQuad feeder

** Parabolic SAR-a chart pattern in which prices rise or fall with an increasingly steeper slope

: Parabolic trajectory-An " orbit " with eccentricity exactly equal to 1.

* Laherrère J, Deheuvels P ( 1996 ) " Distributions de type ' fractal parabolique ' dans la nature " ( French, with English summary: " Parabolic fractal " distributions in nature ), ( http :// www. hubbertpeak. com / laherrere / fractal. htm ) Comptes rendus de l ' Académie des sciences, Série II a: Sciences de la Terre et des Planétes, 322, ( 7 ), 535 – 541

Parabolic reflectors on the back side of the mirror would then direct the sunlight through the acrylic panels to brilliantly illuminate the honorees ' names with sunlight.

Parabolic reflectors resolve this, allowing incoming parallel rays ( for example, light from a distant star ) to be focused to a small spot ; almost an ideal point.

* Another reason for using the Cassegrain design is to increase the focal length of the antenna, to improve the field of view Parabolic reflectors used in dish antennas have a large curvature and short focal length, to locate the focal point near the mouth of the dish, to reduce the length of the supports required to hold the feed structure or secondary reflector.

* Parabolic SARWilder's trailing stop based on prices tending to stay within a parabolic curve during a strong trend

The Hadley Mountain Fire Observation Station and Hadley Parabolic Bridge are listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

" The Raymondville Parabolic Bridge was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.

Parabolic microphones appear to use acoustic mirror properties but instead depend on a parabolic dish to reflect sound coming from a specific direction into the microphone placed at the focus.

* Parabolic Mirror at cut-the-knot

Parabolic microphone used at an American college football game.

Image: Goldstone DSN antenna. jpg | Parabolic antenna-the 70m antenna at Goldstone

From 1987 until 1992 he directed the Parabolic Flight Programme at the Flight Test Centre, Brétigny-sur-Orge and provided technical support to the European Manned Space Programmes within the ESA Hermes crew office.