conoid

English

Etymology

From cone +‎ -oid.

Adjective

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."

Derived terms

• conoidal
• conoidic
• pseudoconoid

 

Translations

conical

• Bulgarian: конусовиден (konusoviden)
• Italian: conoide

Noun

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

Hyponyms

• (geometry): right conoid ⊃ hyperbolic paraboloid

Translations

geometry, solid

• German: Afterkegel, Konoid
• Italian: conoide m
• Latin: conoides
• Spanish: conoide (es) m

Anagrams

• oncoid

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French conoïde.

Noun

conoid n (plural conoizi)

1. conoid

Declension

Declension of conoid

	singular		plural
	indefinite articulation	definite articulation	indefinite articulation	definite articulation
nominative/accusative	(un) conoid	conoidul	(niște) conoizi	conoizile
genitive/dative	(unui) conoid	conoidului	(unor) conoizi	conoizilor
vocative	conoidule		conoizilor