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What is a point in the Cartesian Plane called?

Coordinate

What is the 4-dimensional equivalent of a cube?

Tesseract

What is another name for the slope of a line?

Gradient

Who developed the Plane Coordinate System?

René Descartes

What is the z-coordinate in a 3-dimensional system called?

Applicate

Which curve has zero affine curvature?

Parabola

What is a conic that collapses into simpler geometric objects called?

Degenerate conic

What dimensionless parameter determines the type of conic?

Eccentricity

What cone extends both above and below its vertex?

Double-napped cone

Which conic has curvature approaching zero at infinity?

Hyperbola

What is the chord through the focus of a conic called?

Latus rectum

What is the unit of eccentricity?

None

What are non-degenerate quadratic curves called?

Conics

Which conic has a constant difference in distances from two foci?

Hyperbola

What scalar identifies the type of conic from its general quadratic equation?

Discriminant

What conic forms when a plane is parallel to a cone's generator?

Parabola

What closed plane curve has constant nonzero curvature?

Circle

What geometric property varies along an ellipse?

Curvature

What figure consists of points equidistant from a fixed point?

Circle

Where do reflected light rays meet in a parabola?

Focus

What is the central line of symmetry of a double-napped cone?

Axis

What figure forms when a plane touches a cone at its vertex?

Point

What forms when a plane passes through a cone's vertex at an angle?

Intersecting lines

What straight line generates the surface of a cone?

Generator

What is the angle between two generators of one nappe at the vertex?

Vertex angle