Definition of Parabolic mirror

1. Noun. A parabolic reflector for light radiation.


Lexicographical Neighbors of Parabolic Mirror

parable
parabled
parablelike
parablepsia
parablepsis
parablepsy
parables
parabling
parabola
parabolae
parabolas
parabole
paraboles
parabolic
parabolic geometry
parabolic mirror (current term)
parabolic reflector
parabolical
parabolically
parabolicity
parabolics
paraboliform
parabolism
parabolisms
parabolist
parabolists
paraboloid
paraboloid condenser
paraboloid dark field condenser
paraboloid reflector

Literary usage of Parabolic mirror

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Mathematical Monthly by John Daniel Runkle (1859)
"A FLUID parabolic mirror. BY PROF. GEORGE It. PERKINS. If an open vertical cylinder, containing a fluid, is made to revolve with a uniform motion about its ..."

2. Notes on Recent Researches in Electricity and Magnetism: Intended as a by Joseph John Thomson, James Clerk Maxwell (1893)
"The resonator, which was placed in the focal line of an equal parabolic mirror, consisted of two pieces of wire, each had a straight piece 50 cm. long, ..."

3. An Elementary Treatise on Optics by Richard Potter (1851)
"... the results, agree with those of the next proposition, for a pencil of parallel rays falling obliquely on a parabolic mirror : so that the above results ..."

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