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  • 11Cone-in-cone structures — in limestone. Cone in cone structures are secondary sedimentary structures that form in association with deeper burial and diagenesis. They consist of concentric inter bedded cones of calcite or more rarely gypsum, siderite or pyrite …

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  • 12Cone — (k[=o]n), v. t. To render cone shaped; to bevfl like whe circwlar segoent of a cone; as, to cone the tires of car wheels. [1913 Webster] …

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  • 13cone —    , cone number    a measure of temperature used by potters. Pyrometric cones are cone shaped objects designed to soften and bend after absorbing a specific amount of heat. Potters place these cones in the kiln and observe them through… …

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  • 14cone — ► NOUN 1) an object which tapers from a circular or roughly circular base to a point. 2) (also traffic cone) a plastic cone used to separate off sections of a road. 3) the cone shaped dry fruit of a conifer. 4) one of two types of light sensitive …

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  • 15cone wheel — cone wheel, a cone shaped pulley used to transmit and vary mechanical motion …

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  • 16cone|flow|er — «KOHN FLOW uhr», noun. 1. any one of a genus of plants of the composite family, having showy flowers with a black or dark cone shaped center and orange yellow rays. 2. any one of various related plants …

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  • 17cone — /kohn/, n., v., coned, coning. n. 1. Geom. a. a solid whose surface is generated by a line passing through a fixed point and a fixed plane curve not containing the point, consisting of two equal sections joined at a vertex. b. a plane surface… …

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  • 18cone — I UK [kəʊn] / US [koʊn] noun [countable] Word forms cone : singular cone plural cones * 1) an object with a circular base that rises to a point. Something in the shape of a cone is conical a large building shaped like a cone a tower with a cone… …

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  • 19Cone — This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the same title. If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article …

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  • 20cone — /koʊn / (say kohn) noun 1. a solid with a circular base, whose straight sides converge in a point. 2. Geometry a solid whose surface is generated by the straight lines joining a fixed point to the points of a plane curve whose plane does not… …