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Sound
Each Play button uses your device's default local English voice, or a natural local fallback. The selected voice name appears after playback. This is synthesized speech, not a source recording.
adj
Deviating from circularity; changing the distance from a centre.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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noun
A planar curve having the property that, when its plane is placed vertically, a body descending along it, by the force of gravity, will approach to, or recede from, a fixed point or centre, by equal distances in equal times.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: geometry, mathematics, sciences
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History
From para- + -centric.
