cone
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Middle English cone (“corner, angle”) and conoun (“cone”), from Medieval Latin cōnus, cōnon (“cone, wedge, peak”), from Ancient Greek
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Pronunciation
[edit]- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈkəʊn/
- (General American) IPA(key): /ˈkoʊn/
Audio (US): (file) - Rhymes: -əʊn
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Noun
[edit]cone (plural cones)
- (geometry) A surface of revolution formed by rotating a segment of a line around another line that intersects the first line.
- (geometry) A solid of revolution formed by rotating a triangle around one of its altitudes.
- (topology) A space formed by taking the direct product of a given space with a closed interval and identifying all of one end to a point.
- Anything shaped like a cone.[1]
- The fruit of a conifer.[1]
- A cone-shaped flower head of various plants, such as banksias and proteas.
- An ice cream cone.[1]
- A traffic cone
- A unit of volume, applied solely to marijuana and only while it is in a smokable state; roughly 1.5 cubic centimetres, depending on use.
- (anatomy) Any of the small cone-shaped structures in the retina.[1]
- (slang) The bowl piece on a bong.
- (slang) The process of smoking cannabis in a bong.
- (slang) A cone-shaped cannabis joint.
- (slang) A passenger on a cruise ship (so-called by employees after traffic cones, from the need to navigate around them)
- (category theory) An object V together with an arrow going from V to each object of a diagram such that for any arrow A in the diagram, the pair of arrows from V which subtend A also commute with it. (Then V can be said to be the cone’s vertex and the diagram which the cone subtends can be said to be its base.)
- Hyponym: limit
- A cone is an object (the apex) and a natural transformation from a constant functor (whose image is the apex of the cone and its identity morphism) to a diagram functor. Its components are projections from the apex to the objects of the diagram and it has a “naturality triangle” for each morphism in the diagram. (A “naturality triangle” is just a naturality square which is degenerate at its apex side.)
- A shell of the genus Conus, having a conical form.
- (computing theory) A set of formal languages with certain desirable closure properties, in particular those of the regular languages, the context-free languages and the recursively enumerable languages.
Synonyms
[edit]- (geometry): conical surface
- (ice cream cone): cornet, ice cream cone
Derived terms
[edit]- anterocone
- bicone
- bristlecone
- cinder cone
- circular cone
- cocone
- conal
- conebill
- cone biopsy
- cone bush
- cone cabbage
- cone cell
- cone connector
- cone flower
- coneflower
- cone-flower
- Conehead
- conehead
- coneheaded
- cone-headed
- cone-in-cone
- coneless
- conelike
- conenose
- cone of confusion
- cone off
- cone of power
- cone of shame
- cone of silence
- cone pepper
- conepiece
- coner
- cone-shaped
- cone shell
- cone snail
- conetainer
- conetronics
- cone wheat
- coneworm
- conic
- conic section
- coniform
- conization
- conoid
- conopeptide
- conotoxin
- cyrtocone
- decapicone
- deuterocone
- dicone
- Dirac cone
- discocone
- elliptospherocone
- endocone
- epicone
- fir-cone
- growth cone
- gyrocone
- helicocone
- hydraucone
- hypercone
- hypocone
- ice cream cone
- ice-cream cone
- intercone
- lava cone
- light cone
- mesocone
- metacone
- microcone
- mouth cone
- mud cone
- nanocone
- nose cone
- oligocone
- otocone
- overcone
- oxycone
- paracone
- pet cone
- phragmocone
- piezocone
- pinecone
- pine cone
- pine-cone
- platycone
- polar cone
- protocone
- pseudocone
- roller cone bit
- roller-cone bit
- semicone
- serpenticone
- shattercone
- shatter cone
- snow cone
- snowcone
- spatter cone
- spherical cone
- spherocone
- spruce cone
- storm cone
- subcone
- sugar cone
- sulfur cone
- sulphur cone
- tail cone
- textile cone
- toxocone
- traffic cone
- viewing cone
- waffle cone
- wind cone
- witch-hazel cone gall
- witch-hazel cone gall aphid
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See also
[edit]Verb
[edit]cone (third-person singular simple present cones, present participle coning, simple past and past participle coned)
- (transitive) To fashion into the shape of a cone.
- (intransitive) To form a cone shape.
- 1971, United States. Congress. House Appropriations, Department of the Interior and Related Agencies Appropriations for 1972 (part 3, page 69)
- Under the old method the material coned at the bottom of the borehole and as a result it would not go under houses and buildings.
- 1971, United States. Congress. House Appropriations, Department of the Interior and Related Agencies Appropriations for 1972 (part 3, page 69)
- (frequently followed by "off") To segregate or delineate an area using traffic cones.
References
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]Noun
[edit]cone f (plural cones)
Latin
[edit]Noun
[edit]cōne
References
[edit]- cone in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
Portuguese
[edit]Etymology
[edit]1560s, from Middle French cone (16c.) or directly from Latin cōnus (“cone; peak of a helmet”), from Ancient Greek
Pronunciation
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- Hyphenation: co‧ne
- Rhymes: -oni
Noun
[edit]cone m (plural cones)
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