CONIC
What does "CONIC" mean?
Relating to a cone, or to the curves formed by slicing a cone.
Meanings
- Shaped like or relating to a cone. The tower narrowed to a conic peak.
- A curve - circle, ellipse, parabola, or hyperbola - formed by a plane cutting a cone. Planetary orbits are conics, tracing ellipses around the Sun. technical
Did you know?
- Slice a cone four different ways and you get every orbit in the solar system: the conic sections - circle, ellipse, parabola, hyperbola - were named and studied by Apollonius of Perga over two thousand years ago.
Word origin
From Greek 'konikos,' from 'konos' (cone, pine cone, peak); the same root that gives 'cone' and the broader study of conic sections.
Remember it
CONIC is 'CONE' plus 'IC' - the adjective form that means 'of a cone.'
A little poem
One cone, one clean cut -
tilt the blade and the same shape
becomes a new world.
haiku
Wordplay
- Why is the parabola never lonely? It knows it's just a cone away from being a circle - same shape, different angle.
What it teaches
Change only your angle and the same thing becomes a wholly different curve.
Quick facts
What does CONIC mean?
Relating to a cone, or to the curves formed by slicing a cone.
Is CONIC a valid word?
Yes — CONIC is one of the answer words in Wordul, the daily word game.
How many letters is CONIC?
CONIC has 5 letters and 2 syllables.
Where does CONIC come from?
From Greek 'konikos,' from 'konos' (cone, pine cone, peak); the same root that gives 'cone' and the broader study of conic sections.
What can CONIC teach us?
Change only your angle and the same thing becomes a wholly different curve.
How players do
Be the first to solve it.