conic section
EnglishEdit
NounEdit
conic section (plural conic sections)
- (geometry) Any of the four distinct shapes that are the intersections of a cone with a plane, namely the circle, ellipse, parabola and hyperbola.
SynonymsEdit
- conic
- See also Thesaurus:conic section
TranslationsEdit
Any of the four distinct shapes that are the intersections of a cone with a plane
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