Conic definition

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A conic section.
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Conical.
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(geometry) A conic section.
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Origin of conic

  • New Latin cōnicus from Greek kōnikos from kōnos cone kō- in Indo-European roots

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • From Ancient Greek κωνικός (konikos)

    From Wiktionary

Conic Sentence Examples

  • John Casey, professor of mathematics at the Catholic university of Dublin, has given elementary demonstrations founded on the theory of similitude and coaxal circles which are reproduced in his Sequel to Euclid; an analytical solution by Gergonne is given in Salmon's Conic Sections.

  • Cubic equations were solved geometrically by determining the intersections of conic sections.

  • It is therefore a conic section having its eccentricity equal to unity.

  • In projective geometry it may be defined as the conic which intersects the line at infinity in two real points, or to which it is possible to draw two real tangents from the centre.

  • The same name is also given to the first positive pedal of any central conic. When the conic is a rectangular hyperbola, the curve is the lemniscate of Bernoulli previously described.

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