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conic section

noun

  1. a curve, either an ellipse, circle, parabola, or hyperbola, produced by the intersection of a plane with a right circular cone
  2. the branch of geometry dealing with ellipses, circles, parabolas, and hyperbolas
    also conics

    noun

See conic section in American Heritage Dictionary 4

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