- conoid
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or conoidal
adjective
Date: 1570
shaped like or nearly like a cone <conoid shells> <conoid pottery> • conoid noun
New Collegiate Dictionary. 2001.
conoid
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conoid — CONOÍD, Ă, conoizi, de, adj., s.n. (mat.) 1. adj. Conoidal. 2. Suprafaţă generată de o dreaptă care se menţine paralelă cu un plan dat şi se sprijină pe o dreaptă fixă şi pe o curbă fixă. – Din fr. conoïde. Trimis de LauraGellner, 30.07.2004.… … Dicționar Român
Conoid — Co noid (k[=o] noid), n. [Gr. kwnoeidh s conical; kw^nos cone + e i^dos form: cf. F. cono[ i]de.] 1. Anything that has a form resembling that of a cone. [1913 Webster] 2. (Geom.) (a) A solid formed by the revolution of a conic section about its… … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
Conoid — Co noid a. Resembling a cone; conoidal. [1913 Webster] … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
Conoīd — (Conoides, Math.), Körper, der durch Umdrehung einer krummen Linie um eine Achse entsteht, wenn die Linie diese Achse schneidet u. ihre auf der Achse senkrechten Ordinaten mit ihrem Abstande von jenem Schneidungspunkte immerfort zunehmen. Der… … Pierer's Universal-Lexikon
Conoïd — Conoïd, in der Mathematik ein durch Umdrehung des Kegelschnitts um seine Axe gebildeter Körper … Herders Conversations-Lexikon
conoid — [kō′noid΄] adj. [Gr kōnoeidēs: see CONE & OID] cone shaped: also conoidal n. 1. a cone shaped thing 2. Geom. a solid described by a conic section revolving about its axis … English World dictionary
Conoid — The hyperbolic paraboloid z=xy is a conoid with x axis as its axis. The hyperbolic paraboloid z=xy is a conoid with y axis as its axis. In … Wikipedia
conoid — 1. A cone shaped structure. 2. Part of the apical complex characteristic of the protozoan subphylum, Apicomplexa; seen in sporozoites, merozoites, or other developmental stages of sporozoans, less well developed in the piroplasms (families… … Medical dictionary
conoid — [ kəʊnɔɪd] adjective (also conoidal) chiefly Zoology approximately conical in shape. noun a conoid object … English new terms dictionary
conoid ligament — n the posterior fasciculus of the coracoclavicular ligament connecting the conoid tubercle and the base of the coracoid * * * ligamentum conoideum … Medical dictionary
