conic

Other forms of conic

plural

conics·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about conic

What does conic mean?

conic means "(geometry) a curve generated by the intersection of a plane and a circular cone". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in conic?

conic has 2 syllables: co-nic. The stress falls on "co". In IPA it is /ˈkɑnɪk/.

What is another word for conic?

Close synonyms include conic section, conical, conelike, cone-shaped. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is conic a common word?

conic is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with conic?

2 words rhyme with conic. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.