Projectile,Trajectory和Parabola

阮一峰發表於2006-08-07

一則單詞辨析。

Projectile是指拋射出去的一個物體,尤指炮彈。(a weapon that is forcibly thrown or projected at a targets but is not self-propelled. 英語釋義皆取自WordNET,以下同。)

Trajectory指的是拋射出去的物體的執行軌跡,比如彈道就是ballistic trajectory。(the path followed by an object moving through space.)

Parabola是數學中的拋物線,是技術名詞,用數學語言說,就是具有ax^2+bx+c(a<>0)形式的曲線,在幾何上就是一個平面切割圓錐體所產生的交集。形容詞形式是parabolic,它同時也是parable(寓言) 的形容詞形式。(a plane curve formed by the intersection of a right circular cone and a plane parallel to an element of the curve )

一些例句:

* Without air resistance, the projectile will follow a parabolic trajectory.

* The trajectory of the projectile is known to be a parabola.

* any trajectory taken by a projectile is a parabola.


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