conic section

conic section

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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.
    Hypernym: section
    Hyponyms: circle, ellipse, parabola, hyperbola

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