conoid

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Etymology

From cone +‎ -oid.

Pronunciation

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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) Greek: κωνοειδής (el) (konoeidís) 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	definite		indefinite	definite
nominative-accusative	conoid	conoidul		conoizi	conoizile
genitive-dative	conoid	conoidului		conoizi	conoizilor
vocative	conoidule			conoizilor