conic
/ˈkɑnɪk/
adjective
- Having the shape of a cone; cone-shaped.
- The wizard's hat was tall and conic, with a wide brim.
- The volcano had a nearly perfect conic form, rising steeply from the plain.
- She used a conic filter to pour the liquid into the narrow bottle.
noun
- A curve formed by the intersection of a plane with a cone, such as a circle, ellipse, parabola, or hyperbola.
- Astronomers study the orbits of comets, which often follow a conic section.
- The path of a thrown ball is a conic called a parabola.
- In geometry class, we learned that a circle is a special type of conic.