conic section

1. 1.

   (geometry) a curve generated by the intersection of a plane and a circular cone

   Synonymsconic

   Broaderplane figure

   Narrowerellipseparabolahyperbola

   geometry

Questions about conic section

What does conic section mean?

conic section means "(geometry) a curve generated by the intersection of a plane and a circular cone".

What is another word for conic section?

Close synonyms include conic. 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 section a common word?

conic section 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.