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section •ashen, fashion, passion, ration •abstraction, action, attraction, benefaction, compaction, contraction, counter… Conics , A conic section is the plane curve formed by the intersection of a plane and a right-circular, twonapped cone. Such a cone is shown in Figure 1.
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