Meaning Of The Word Conic section

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conic section in American English
a curve, either an ellipse, circle, parabola, or hyperbola, produced by the intersection of a plane with a right circular cone
noun: a curve formed by the intersection of a plane with a right circular cone; an ellipse, a circle, a parabola, or a hyperbola

conic section in British English
noun: one of a group of curves formed by the intersection of a plane and a right circular cone. It is either a circle, ellipse, parabola, or hyperbola, depending on the eccentricity, e, which is constant for a particular curve e = 0 for a circle; e1 for a hyper

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