cone
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See also cône
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Etymology [edit]
From Latin conus (“cone, wedge, peak”), from Ancient Greek κώνος (konos, “cone, spinning top, pine cone”)
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]
- An ice cream cone.[1]
- 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.
- 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) Given a diagram F : J → C, a cone consists of an object N of C, together with a family of morphisms ψX : N → F(X) indexed by all of the objects of J, such that for every morphism f : X → Y in J,
. Then N is the vertex of the cone, whose sides are all the ψX indexed by Ob(J) and whose base is F. The cone is said to be "from N to F" and can be denoted as (N, ψ).
- «Let J be an index category which has an initial object I. Let F be a diagram of type J in C. Then category C contains a cone from F(I) to F.»
- «If category C has a cone from N to F and a morphism from M to N, then category C also has a cone from M to F.»
. Then N is the vertex of the cone, whose sides are all the ψX indexed by Ob(J) and whose base is F. The cone is said to be "from N to F" and can be denoted as (N, ψ).
Synonyms [edit]
- (geometry): conical surface
- (ice cream cone): cornet, ice cream cone
Translations [edit]
surface of revolution
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solid of revolution
anything shaped like a cone
ice-cream cone — see ice cream cone
fruit of conifers
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photosensitive cell in retina
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terms derived from cone
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Verb [edit]
cone (third-person singular simple present cones, present participle coning, simple past and past participle coned)
- (pottery) To fashion into the shape of a cone.
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Noun [edit]
cone m (plural cones)
- cone (conical shape)
