conoid

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Candela moved on to experiment with conoids, folded slabs and elliptical domes.

From Time Magazine Archive

Fan Vault.—The vaulting in use in England in the fifteenth century, in which a series of conoids bearing some resemblance to an open fan are employed.

From Architecture Gothic and Renaissance by Smith, T. Roger (Thomas Roger)

Archimedes first explains what his conoids and spheroids are, and then, after each 40 description, states the main results which it is the aim of the treatise to prove.

From Archimedes Men of Science by Heath, Thomas Little