conoidal

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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

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

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 hemispherical, conoidal, parabolic and blunt trifaced all give more or less of the wedging effect.

From Scientific American Supplement, No. 803, May 23, 1891 by Various