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Blend of miraculous + parabolic.
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Today it means: Being or relating to a subgroup of the general linear group GLₙ(k) that consists of automorphisms fixing a given non-zero vector in kⁿ. Its image in the projective general linear group is a parabolic subgroup consisting of all elements fixing a given point of projective space. Full definition →
Blend of miraculous + parabolic.
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