Conoid

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  • adjective. Shaped like a cone.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • In conchology, resembling or having the characters of the Conidæ.
  • noun. A gastropod of the family Conidæ.
  • Having the form of a cone; conoidal.
  • noun. In geometry: A solid formed by the revolution of a conic section about its axis. A skew surface which may be generated by a straight line moving in such a manner as to touch a straight line and curve, and continue parallel to a given plane. A surface generated by the revolution of an arc of a circle about its sine.
  • noun. In anatomy, the conarium or pineal body.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adjective. Resembling a cone; conoidal.
  • noun. Anything that has a form resembling that of a cone.
  • noun. undefined
  • noun. A solid formed by the revolution of a conic section about its axis; ; -- more commonly called paraboloid, ellipsoid, etc.
  • noun. A surface which may be generated by a straight line moving in such a manner as always to meet a given straight line and a given curve, and continue parallel to a given plane.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adjective. Shaped like a cone; conical
  • adjective. A Catalan surface all of whose rulings intersect some fixed line.
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  • noun. a shape whose base is a circle and whose sides taper up to a point