Conic /(?)/
Con·ic
Conic
a.
- Having the form of, or resembling, a geometrical cone; round and tapering to a point, or gradually lessening in circumference; as, a conic or conical figure; a conical vessel.
- Of or pertaining to a cone; as, conic sections.
Phrases & Compounds
- Conic section
- a curved line formed by the intersection of the surface of a right cone and a plane. The conic sections are the parabola, ellipse, and hyperbola. The right lines and the circle which result from certain positions of the plane are sometimes, though not generally included.
- Conic sections
- that branch of geometry which treats of the parabola, ellipse, and hyperbola.
- Conical pendulum
- See Pendulum.
- Conical projection
- a method of delineating the surface of a sphere upon a plane surface as if projected upon the surface of a cone; -- much used by makers of maps in Europe.
- Conical surface
- a surface described by a right line moving along any curve and always passing through a fixed point that is not in the plane of that curve.
Conic
n.
- A conic section. (Math.)