conoid
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English
Etymology
Pronunciation
Adjective
conoid (comparative more conoid, superlative most conoid)
- Shaped like a cone; conical.
- 2023 March 22, Philip Haigh, “Five configuration stages to boost Manchester rail capacity”, in RAIL, number 979, page 31:
- Historic England explained the listing: "The station's unique design employs a high level of sophistication and innovation through its use of conoid shells supported on a cruck-like frame, which not only create a dramatic aesthetic form, but endow the building with a light and spacious interior."
Derived terms
Translations
conical
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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.
- (anatomy) The pineal gland
Hyponyms
- (geometry): right conoid ⊃ hyperbolic paraboloid
Translations
geometry, solid
Anagrams
Romanian
Etymology
Noun
conoid n (plural conoizi)
Declension
| singular | plural | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| indefinite | definite | indefinite | definite | ||
| nominative-accusative | conoid | conoidul | conoizi | conoizile | |
| genitive-dative | conoid | conoidului | conoizi | conoizilor | |
| vocative | conoidule | conoizilor | |||