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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 Wikisaurus:conic section

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