CONIC SECTION meaning: Intersection of cone and plane

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conic section: Merriam-Webster
conic section: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
conic section: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
conic section: Collins English Dictionary
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conic section: Wordnik
conic section: Wiktionary
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Conic section: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
conic section: Rhymezone
conic section: FreeDictionary.org
conic section: Mnemonic Dictionary
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conic section: Encyclopedia

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Conic Section: Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics
conic section: PlanetMath Encyclopedia

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Definitions from Wiktionary (conic section)

▸ noun: (geometry) Any of the four distinct shapes that are the intersections of a cone with a plane, namely the circle, ellipse, parabola and hyperbola.

Opposite:

non-conic section, non-ellipse, non-parabola, non-hyperbola

Types:

circle, ellipse, parabola, hyperbola, more...

Adjectives:

nephroid, focal, cycloid, conoid, regular, angular, obtuse, concyclic, geodesic, acute, equilateral

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