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Definition of Parabolic mirror
1. Noun. A parabolic reflector for light radiation.
Group relationships: Reflecting Telescope, Reflector
Lexicographical Neighbors of Parabolic Mirror
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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