- a curve, either an ellipse, circle, parabola, or hyperbola, produced by the intersection of a plane with a right circular cone
- [pl., with sing. v.] the branch of geometry dealing with ellipses, circles, parabolas, and hyperbolasalso con′ics

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"conic section." YourDictionary, n.d. Web. 15 January 2019. <https://www.yourdictionary.com/conic-section>.
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conic section. (n.d.). Retrieved January 15th, 2019, from https://www.yourdictionary.com/conic-section
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"conic section." YourDictionary, n.d. Web. 15 January 2019. <https://www.yourdictionary.com/conic-section>.
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conic section. (n.d.). Retrieved January 15th, 2019, from https://www.yourdictionary.com/conic-section