conoid

English

Etymology

cone +‎ -oid

Adjective

conoid (comparative more conoid, superlative most conoid)

Shaped like a cone; conical

Translations

conical

Italian: conoide

Noun

conoid (plural conoids)

Anything shaped like a cone.
(geometry) A Catalan surface all of whose rulings intersect some fixed line.
(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

Latin: conoides
Spanish: conoide (es) m

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