Definition:Central Conic/Also defined as
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Central Conic: Also defined as
Many sources define a central conic as a conic section which is either an ellipse or a hyperbola.
However, this coincides with the definition as given here, given Circle is Ellipse with Equal Major and Minor Axes.
Sources
- 1998: David Nelson: The Penguin Dictionary of Mathematics (2nd ed.) ... (previous) ... (next): central conic
- 2008: David Nelson: The Penguin Dictionary of Mathematics (4th ed.) ... (previous) ... (next): central conic
- 2014: Christopher Clapham and James Nicholson: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Mathematics (5th ed.) ... (previous) ... (next): central conic
- 2021: Richard Earl and James Nicholson: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Mathematics (6th ed.) ... (previous) ... (next): central conic
- Weisstein, Eric W. "Central Conic." From MathWorld--A Wolfram Web Resource. https://mathworld.wolfram.com/CentralConic.html