conoid
Americanadjective
noun
noun
adjective
Other Word Forms
- conoidally adverb
Etymology
Origin of conoid
From the Greek word kōnoeidḗs, dating back to 1650–60. See cone, -oid
Example Sentences
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Schell records the case of a soldier who was wounded July 3, 1867, by a conoid ball from a Remington revolver of the Army pattern.
From Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine by Pyle, Walter L. (Walter Lytle)
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
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
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
The stolen object is a globe; the object presented in exchange is an elliptical conoid studded with angular projections along the edge of the base.
From The Wonders of Instinct Chapters in the Psychology of Insects by Teixeira de Mattos, Alexander
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