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  2. Generatrix - Wikipedia

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    A cone can be generated by moving a line (the generatrix) fixed at the future apex of the cone along a closed curve (the directrix); if that directrix is a circle perpendicular to the line connecting its center to the apex, the motion is rotation around a fixed axis and the resulting shape is a circular cone.

  3. Conoid - Wikipedia

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    describes a right circular conoid with the unit circle of the x-y-plane as directrix and a directrix plane, which is parallel to the y--z-plane. Its axis is the line (,,) . Special features: The intersection with a horizontal plane is an ellipse.

  4. Dandelin spheres - Wikipedia

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    The directrix of a conic section can be found using Dandelin's construction. Each Dandelin sphere intersects the cone at a circle; let both of these circles define their own planes. The intersections of these two parallel planes with the conic section's plane will be two parallel lines; these lines are the directrices of the conic section.

  5. Conical surface - Wikipedia

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    The directrix is often taken as a plane curve, in a plane not containing the apex, but this is not a requirement. [1] In general, a conical surface consists of two congruent unbounded halves joined by the apex. Each half is called a nappe, and is the union of all the rays that start at the apex and pass through a point of some fixed space curve ...

  6. Conic section - Wikipedia

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    A circle of finite radius has an infinitely distant directrix, while a pair of lines of finite separation have an infinitely distant focus. Alternatively, one can define a conic section purely in terms of plane geometry: it is the locus of all points P whose distance to a fixed point F (called the focus ) is a constant multiple e (called the ...

  7. Eccentricity (mathematics) - Wikipedia

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    A circle of finite radius has an infinitely distant directrix, while a pair of lines of finite separation have an infinitely distant focus. In mathematics, the eccentricity of a conic section is a non-negative real number that uniquely characterizes its shape.