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CONIC SECTION
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
(geometry) a curve generated by the intersection of a plane and a circular cone
Synonyms:
conic; conic section
Classified under:
Nouns denoting two and three dimensional shapes
Hypernyms ("conic section" is a kind of...):
plane figure; two-dimensional figure (a two-dimensional shape)
Domain category:
geometry (the pure mathematics of points and lines and curves and surfaces)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "conic section"):
ellipse; oval (a closed plane curve resulting from the intersection of a circular cone and a plane cutting completely through it)
parabola (a plane curve formed by the intersection of a right circular cone and a plane parallel to an element of the curve)
hyperbola (an open curve formed by a plane that cuts the base of a right circular cone)
