CONIC SECTION

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

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...):

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)