1. conic - Noun
2. conic - Adjective
Alt. of Conical
A conic section.
Source: Webster's dictionaryWe find in the history of ideas mutations which do not seem to correspond to any obvious need, and at first sight appear as mere playful whimsies such as Apollonius' work on conic sections, or the non-Euclidean geometries, whose practical value became apparent only later. Arthur Koestler
The Ellipse is the most simple of the Conic Sections, most known, and nearest of Kin to a Circle, and easiest describ'd by the Hand in plano. Isaac Newton
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A conic section is the intersection of a cone with equation and a plane. Source: Internet
According to the definition of a parabola as a conic section, the boundary of this pink cross-section, EPD, is a parabola. Source: Internet