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They are the shapes of the slices when you slice a cone. For example, when you slice it parallel to the base and look at the shape of the slice, you see the conic section known as a "circle". The others are the "ellipse", the "parabola", and the "hyperbola". Which one you get depends only on how you tilt the knife when you slice the cone.

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