conoidal

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B. Sc.—Combination of two conoidal lenses.—Range of power obtained.

From Scientific American Supplement, No. 586, March 26, 1887 by Various

Keen has recorded a case in which a conoidal ball lodged in the body of the third cervical vertebra, from which it was extracted six weeks later.

From Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine by Pyle, Walter L. (Walter Lytle)

The red rover of that region will disappear as a combatant in the same way, and before the same weapon, as his brother nomad of Algeria, the earliest victim of the conoidal bullet.

From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 15, No. 85, January, 1875 by Various

In this motion, the string forms a sort of conoidal surface, distended by centrifugal force.

From Scientific American Supplement, No. 1082, September 26, 1896 by Various

These emanations may be regarded as conoidal envelopes of greater of less thickness, p 102 and, considered in this manner, they furnish a simple explanation of many of the remarkable optical phenomena already spoken of.

From COSMOS: A Sketch of the Physical Description of the Universe, Vol. 1 by Humboldt, Alexander von