ALL meanings of conic section
con·ic sec·tion
C c - noun conic section 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; e<1 for an ellipse; e = 1 for a parabola; e>1 for a hyperbola 3
- noun conic section a curve, either an ellipse, circle, parabola, or hyperbola, produced by the intersection of a plane with a right circular cone 3
- noun conic section the branch of geometry dealing with ellipses, circles, parabolas, and hyperbolas 3
- noun conic section a curve formed by the intersection of a plane with a right circular cone; an ellipse, a circle, a parabola, or a hyperbola. 1
- noun conic section (geometry) Any of the four distinct shapes that are the intersections of a cone with a plane, namely the circle, ellipse, parabola and hyperbola. 0