oblique circular cone

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noun Geometry.

a cone whose surface is generated by lines joining a fixed point to the points of a circle, the fixed point lying on a line that is not perpendicular to the circle at its center.

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Compare right circular cone.

Origin of oblique circular cone

Probably earlier than 1950–55

Words nearby oblique circular cone

obligement, obliging, obligor, oblique, oblique angle, oblique circular cone, oblique circular cylinder, oblique coordinates, oblique diameter, oblique fault, oblique fracture

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She reassumed slave posture while Couple grabbed two magnetized clamps and a collection of circular magnets from a nearby shelf.
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Cone Mills features in all the major chapters of the 20th century.
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Steve Garth, who works in Circular Quay, was inside the Cartier jewelry store near the café when the siege began.
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The definition of “innuendo,” according to the Merriam-Webster Dictionary, is “an oblique allusion.”
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For his part, Logan now believes that more than 95 percent of cone bearing trees are infected.
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On certain of the stems the fertile cone appears and the spores are ripened about June, after which the process withers.
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With the dispersal of the spores the cone shrivels up, and then the stems starts to send out green branches.
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The road descended on the other side, and we followed it till we came unexpectedly upon a little circular park.
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Her eye fastened on a circular portion of the wall-paper pattern, and she felt that the whole room was revolving about her.
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But upon his head, instead of the ordinary cone-shaped hat worn by the men of the country, was a very peculiar structure.
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