conoidal
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Meanwhile, as an alternative form the conoidal seal, rounded at the top and having a flat base for the intaglio, came into use beside the cylinder.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 5 "Gassendi, Pierre" to "Geocentric" by Various
The 580 conoidal bore greatly improved the quality of tone and the production of the higher harmonics of the third octave.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 5 "Fleury, Claude" to "Foraker" by Various
Comets; the nucleus and tail; various forms and directions of the emanations in conoidal envelopes, with more or less dense walls.
From COSMOS: A Sketch of the Physical Description of the Universe, Vol. 1 by Humboldt, Alexander von
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
