 Axis: It’s a straight line which runs from the apex of the cone to the centre of the base.

 Conic: It’s the locus of a point which moves in a plane, such that: the ratio of its distance from a
fixed point to its perpendicular distance from a fixed straight line is always constant.

 Centre: The point which bisects every chord of the conic passing through it, is called the centre.

 Double ordinate: It’s a straight line which is perpendicular to the axis and terminated at both
ends of the curve.

 Latus rectum: It’s the double ordinate which passes through the focus.

 Vertex: An extreme point on a conic section.

 Asymptote: A straight line which a curve approaches arbitrarily closely as it goes to infinity.

 Locus: The set of all points whose coordinates satisfy a given equation or condition.

 Focus: A point used to construct and define a conic section, at which rays reflected from the
curve converge (plural: foci).

 Conic section: Any curve formed by the intersection of a plane with a cone of two nappes.

 Directrix: A line used to construct and define a conic section; a parabola has one directrix;
ellipses and hyperbolas have two (plural: directrices).

 Radius- It's the distance around acircle. A radius can be a line from any point on the
circumference to the center of the circle. If you put two radii together, edge to edge, going
through the center of acircle, you would get a diameter.

 Circle- is the set of points in a plane that are equidistant from a given point. The distance
from the center is called the radius, and the point is called the center. Twice the radius is
known as the diameter.

 Parabola- is the set of all points whose distance from a fixed point, called the focus,
is equal to the distance from a fixed line, called the directrix. The point halfway between the
focus and the directrix is called the vertex of the parabola.

 Ellipse- is the set of all points for which the sum of the distances from two fixed points (the
foci) is constant. In the case of an ellipse, there are two foci, and two directrices.

 Hyperbola- is the set of all points where the difference between their distances from two
fixed points (the foci) is constant. In the case of a hyperbola, there are two foci and two
directrices. Hyperbolas also have two asymptotes.