conoid

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English

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Etymology

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From cone +‎ -oid.

Adjective

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conoid (comparative more conoid, superlative most conoid)

  1. Shaped like a cone; conical.
    • 2023 March 22, Philip Haigh, “Five configuration stages to boost Manchester rail capacity”, in RAIL, number 979, page 31:
      Historic England explained the listing: "The station's unique design employs a high level of sophistication and innovation through its use of conoid shells supported on a cruck-like frame, which not only create a dramatic aesthetic form, but endow the building with a light and spacious interior."

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Noun

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conoid (plural conoids)

  1. Anything shaped like a cone
  2. (geometry) A Catalan surface all of whose rulings intersect some fixed line
  3. (geometry) 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.
  4. (anatomy) The pineal gland

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Romanian

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Etymology

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Borrowed from French conoïde.

Noun

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conoid n (plural conoizi)

  1. conoid

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