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# conic

adjective

«conic» in the English dictionary: everyday — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

Conic means shaped like a cone, or to do with a cone. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/conic/#m1)

### In the lessons

in the lessons, a conic section is a curve made by cutting a cone with a flat blade: a circle, an ellipse, a parabola or a hyperbola

### Examples

- An ice-cream cone has a conic shape. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/conic/#x1)
- A circle is one kind of conic section. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/conic/#x2)
- The tent had a tall conic roof. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/conic/#x3)
- The student drew the conic curve on the board. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/conic/#x4)

### Note

nothing for counting; conic describes the shape of a curve, not an amount.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «conic» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/conic/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«conic» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/conic.html) on Mova free.