conoid
conoid · conoids
Afterkegel, Konoid
Anything shaped like a coneAnything shaped like a cone.
Meaning
4 sensesAnything shaped like a cone.
A Catalan surface all of whose rulings intersect some fixed line
Afterkegel, Konoid
A solid formed by the revolution of a conic section about its axis
A parabolic conoid is a paraboloid; an elliptic conoid is an ellipsoid.
The pineal gland
More definitions
- a shape whose base is a circle and whose sides taper up to a point
Translations
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By meaning 1
geometry, solid:
Origin
From cone + -oid.From cone + -oid.
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plural: conoidsSynonyms
2 synonymsClose in meaning
- a shape whose base is a circle and whose sides taper up to a point:conecone shape