It is a section of a right circular cone by a plane that is parallel to one generating line of the cone.
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A parabola.
the point in which the parabola cannot go any higher or lower in a coordinate plane
Parabola - apex
By the geometric definition of a line, it is represented by two points, and all points on the line are collinear, between or extrapolating to infinity from the straight line made by the two points. In other words, a line is straight, and can be represented by a binomial function (example: y=2x+1). A parabola is a function, but cannot be described mathematically as a line.
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