Degenerate Meaning Math. That is called a degenerate triangle. An example of a definition that stretches the definition to an absurd degree.
Similarly if a circle has radius 0 its degenerate. For example the point is a degenerate case of the circle as the radius approaches 0 and the circle is a degenerate form of an ellipse as the eccentricity approaches 0. The degenerate form of a parabola is a line or two parallel lines.
DegenerateConic Sections Plane figures that can be obtained by the intersection of a double conewith a plane passing through the apex.
A degenerate triangle is the triangle. These include a point a line and intersecting lines. A degenerate is usually a person who is frowned upon by society for being an individual. Like other conic sections all degenerateconic sections have equations of the form Ax2 Bxy Cy2 Dx Ey F 0.
