conoid

English

Etymology

cone +‎ -oid

Adjective

conoid (comparative more conoid, superlative most conoid)

1. Shaped like a cone; conical

Translations

conical

• Bulgarian: конусовиден (konusoviden)
• Italian: conoide
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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.

Hyponyms

• (geometry): right conoid ⊃ hyperbolic paraboloid

Translations

geometry, solid

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