---
tag: 04S2GMHX82
kind: concept
name: Parabola
msc: [51N20]
sources:
  - url: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parabola
    locator: lead section
same_as:
  wikidata: Q48297
  wikipedia: Parabola
---

## Summary

A parabola is a plane curve. Each of its points has the same distance from a fixed point, the focus, and from a fixed line, the directrix. It is symmetric about the line through the focus perpendicular to the directrix.