conic section

English

Conic sections

Noun

conic section (plural conic sections)

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

Synonyms

• conic
• See also Thesaurus:conic section

Translations

Any of the four distinct shapes that are the intersections of a cone with a plane

• Armenian: կոնական հատույթ (konakan hatuytʿ)
• Catalan: secció cònica f, cònica f
• Czech: kuželosečka (cs) f
• Danish: keglesnit n
• Dutch: kegelsnede (nl) f
• Faroese: keylusnið n
• Finnish: kartioleikkaus (fi)
• Galician: sección cónica f
• German: Kegelschnitt (de) m
• Icelandic: keilusnið n

• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: kjeglesnitt n

  Nynorsk: kjeglesnitt n

• Polish: przekrój stożkowy m, stożkowa f
• Portuguese: cônica (pt) f, seção cônica
• Romanian: conică (ro) f, secțiune conică f
• Russian: кони́ческое сече́ние n (koníčeskoje sečénije)
• Serbo-Croatian: čunjosječnica (sh) f, konika (sh) f
• Spanish: sección cónica (es) f, cónica (es) f
• Swedish: kägelsnitt (sv) n
• Thai: ภาคตัดกรวย (pâak dtàt gruay)