conics

[ kon-iks ]

noun

, (used with a singular verb)

1. the branch of geometry that deals with conic sections.

conics

/ ˈkɒnɪks /

noun

1. functioning as singular the branch of geometry concerned with the parabola, ellipse, and hyperbola

Word History and Origins

Origin of conics¹

conic, -ics

Example Sentences

These had already been proved in earlier treatises, which Archimedes refers to as the “Elements of Conics”.

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Two conics which have four common tangents have always one and only one common polar-triangle.

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Similarly, all conics touching four fixed lines form a system such that any fifth tangent determines one and only one conic.

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The corresponding remark holds for the problem of drawing the conics which touch four lines and pass through a given point.

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It will cut the two conics first at T, and therefore each at some other point which we call A and B respectively.

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