conic section
Noun
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Noun
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.
- conic
- See also Thesaurus:conic section
- German: Kegelschnitt
- Portuguese: cônica, seção cônica
- Russian: кони́ческое сече́ние
- Spanish: sección cónica, cónica
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