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Etymology
From conic + -al.
Pronunciation
Adjective
conical (comparative more conical, superlative most conical)
- (geometry) Of or relating to a cone or cones.
1665 November 6, “An Account of Hevelius his Prodromus Cometicus, together with some Animadversions made upon it by a French Philosopher”, in Henry Oldenburg, editor, Philosophical Transactions, volume I, number 6:He anſwers, That this Motion is Conical; and judgeth, that by the Conick path all the Phænomena of Comets can, without any inconveniency, be readily ſolved; even of that, which (by Hiſtory) in fifty days, paſſed through more then the 12 Signs of the Zodiack; And of that, which in two days run through eight Signs: and of another, which in 48 days poſted through all the Signs, contra ſeriem.
- Shaped like a cone.
1624, Edmund Gunter, chapter XIII, in The Description and Vse of the Sector, London: Williã Jones, page 149:IN Planes neither equinoctiall nor polar, the equator will be a right line, the tropiques and other parallels of declination will be conicall ſections, ſome of them parabolicall, ſome ellipticall, but the moſt of them hyperbolicall.
- (cartography) Describing a map projection in which meridians are mapped to equally spaced lines radiating out from the apex and parallels of latitude are mapped to circular arcs centred on the apex.
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cone-shaped
- Armenian: կոնաձև (konajew)
- Bulgarian: конусовиден (konusoviden)
- Catalan: cònic (ca)
- Cornish: pigornek
- Czech: kuželový, kónický (cs)
- Danish: konisk (da)
- Dutch: conisch (nl)
- Esperanto: konusa
- Finnish: kartiomainen (fi)
- French: conique (fr)
- Galician: cónico (gl) m
- German: konisch (de)
- Greek: κωνικός (el) (konikós)
- Ancient: κωνικός (kōnikós)
- Icelandic: keilulaga, kónískur
- Irish: cónúil, coirceogach
- Italian: conico (it)
- Latin: conicus
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: konisk, kjegleformet
- Nynorsk: konisk
- Ottoman Turkish: سیوری (sivri)
- Polish: stożkowy (pl) m, stożkowaty (pl) m, koniczny (pl)
- Portuguese: cónico (pt) (Portugal), cônico (pt) (Brazil)
- Romanian: conic (ro)
- Russian: кони́ческий (ru) (koníčeskij), ко́нусный (ru) (kónusnyj), конусообра́зный (ru) (konusoobráznyj)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: ко̀ничан, сто̏жаст, чу̏њаст, ку̏паст
- Roman: kòničan (sh), stȍžast (sh), čȕnjast (sh), kȕpast (sh)
- Spanish: cónico (es)
- Swedish: konisk (sv)
- Telugu: కిరీటాకృతి (kirīṭākr̥ti)
- Turkish: konik (tr)
- Ukrainian: коні́чний (koníčnyj), конусоподі́бний (uk) (konusopodíbnyj)
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Noun
conical (plural conicals)
- (firearms) A bullet with a conical shape.
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