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Define The Following Line - An Infinitely-Extending One-Dimensional Figure That

A line is defined as an infinitely-extending one-dimensional figure with no curvature. A parabola is defined as the intersection of a right circular conical surface and a plane parallel to its generating straight line. An ellipse is defined as the finite or bounded case of a conic section resulting from cutting a circular conical or cylindrical surface with an oblique plane, and is also the locus of points whose distances to two fixed points add to the same constant. A hyperbola is defined as a smooth planar curve with two connected components or branches that are mirror images resembling two infinite bows aimed at each other.

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Define The Following Line - An Infinitely-Extending One-Dimensional Figure That

A line is defined as an infinitely-extending one-dimensional figure with no curvature. A parabola is defined as the intersection of a right circular conical surface and a plane parallel to its generating straight line. An ellipse is defined as the finite or bounded case of a conic section resulting from cutting a circular conical or cylindrical surface with an oblique plane, and is also the locus of points whose distances to two fixed points add to the same constant. A hyperbola is defined as a smooth planar curve with two connected components or branches that are mirror images resembling two infinite bows aimed at each other.

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Define the Following

Line - An infinitely-extending one-dimensional figure that has no curvature

Parabola - is a conic section, the intersection of a right circular conical surface and a plane
parallel to a generating straight line of that surface.

Ellipse - is the finite or bounded case of a conic section, the geometric shape that results from
cutting a circular conical or cylindrical surface with an oblique plane (the other two cases being
the parabola and the hyperbola). It is also the locus of all points of the plane whose distances to
two fixed points add to the same constant. Ellipses also arise as images of a circle or a sphere
under parallel projection, and some cases of perspective projection. Indeed, circles are special
cases of ellipses. An ellipse is also the closed and bounded case of an implicit curve of degree 2,
and of a rational curve of degree 2.

is a smooth planar curve having two connected


Hyperbola -
components or branches, each a mirror image of the other
and resembling two infinite bows aimed at each other.
[clarification needed] The hyperbola is traditionally
described as one of the kinds of conic section or
intersection of a plane and a cone, namely when the plane
makes a smaller angle with the axis of the cone than does
the cone itself (Figure 1), the other kinds being the
parabola and the ellipse (including the circle).

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