conics
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of conics
Example Sentences
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The conics are curves that result from a plane intersecting a double cone—two cones placed point-to-point.
From Textbooks • May 6, 2020
In this chapter, you will learn about conics, including circles, parabolas, ellipses, and hyperbolas.
From Textbooks • May 6, 2020
In this chapter we will be looking at the conic sections, usually called the conics, and their properties.
From Textbooks • May 6, 2020
Recall from Rotation of Axes that equations of conics with an term have rotated graphs.
From Textbooks • Feb. 13, 2015
Dionysodorus gave a solution by means of conics of the auxiliary cubic equation to which Archimedes reduced this problem; he also found the solid content of a tore or anchor-ring.
From The Legacy of Greece Essays By: Gilbert Murray, W. R. Inge, J. Burnet, Sir T. L. Heath, D'arcy W. Thompson, Charles Singer, R. W. Livingston, A. Toynbee, A. E. Zimmern, Percy Gardner, Sir Reginald Blomfield by Livingstone, R.W.
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