conicsection

conicsection
conic section conic sections created by the intersection of various planes of a right circular cone Clarinda/Academy Artworks n.
1. The intersection of a right circular cone and a plane, which generates one of a group of plane curves, including the circle, ellipse, hyperbola, and parabola.
2. A graph of the general quadratic equation in two variables.

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Universalium. 2010.

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