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conics
Variant of conic section
noun
- a curve, either an ellipse, circle, parabola, or hyperbola, produced by the intersection of a plane with a right circular cone
- the branch of geometry dealing with ellipses, circles, parabolas, and hyperbolasalso conics
noun
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