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Change log entry 23607
Processed by: laohu489 (2009-12-11 03:51:52 UTC)
Comment: << review queue entry 24056 - submitted by 'richwarm' >>
I feel the second def'n is redundant. Webster's def'n of parabola: "a plane curve generated by a point so moving that its distance from a fixed point divided by its distance from a fixed line is equal to 1" (lovely!)

I feel the tag (math) is not necessary, since "parabola" is readily found in non-specialist dictionaries, and "parabola" does not have a different meaning outside of mathematics.

The hanzi reflect the fact that the trajectory of a thrown object is a parabola. :-)
Diff:
- 拋物線 抛物线 [pao1 wu4 xian4] /parabola/parabolic curve (math)/
+ 拋物線 抛物线 [pao1 wu4 xian4] /parabola/
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