| conic section | |
| —n | |
| Often shortened to: conic one of a group of curves formed by the intersection of a plane and a right circular cone. It is either a circle, ellipse, parabola, or hyperbola, depending on the eccentricity, e, which is constant for a particular curve e = 0 for a circle; e1 for a hyperbola | |
| procedure for dividing a polynomial by a linear polynomial |
| connection between persons by blood or marriage. |
| conic section
A curve formed by the intersection of a plane with a cone. Conic sections can appear as circles, ellipses, hyperbolas, or parabolas, depending on the angle of the intersecting plane relative to the cone's base. |