conoid
Americanadjective
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Etymology
Origin of conoid
From the Greek word kōnoeidḗs, dating back to 1650–60. See cone, -oid
Example Sentences
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The only large building is the Jami or Cathedral, a long barn of poverty-stricken appearance, with broken-down gates, and two white-washed minarets of truncated conoid shape.
From First Footsteps in East Africa by Burton, Richard Francis, Sir
Its conoid head is very elongated, and by reason of this elegant form it always falls upon its point, even at falling angles of an amplitude approaching 60 degrees.
From Scientific American Supplement, No. 598, June 18, 1887 by Various
Archimedes developed the proportions necessary for effecting this comparison, in his treatises on the sphere and cylinder, the spheroid and conoid, and in his work on the measure of the circle.
From Anecdotes of Painters, Engravers, Sculptors and Architects and Curiosities of Art (Vol. 3 of 3) by Spooner, Shearjashub
Mr. Worms, in a series of experiments carried out at King's College, London, adopted a somewhat similar arrangement, but in place of the hemispherical segment he employed a conoid, as shown in Fig.
From Scientific American Supplement, No. 447, July 26, 1884 by Various
Apart from its pillars, the egg-pocket is an inverted conoid, reminding us of the work of the Silky Epeira.
From The Life of the Spider by Teixeira de Mattos, Alexander
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