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conoid

[koh-noid] / ˈkoʊ nɔɪd /


NOUN
cone
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Its conoid head is very elongated, and by reason of this elegant form it always falls upon its point, even at falling angles of an amplitude approaching 60 degrees.

From Scientific American Supplement, No. 598, June 18, 1887 by Various

Archimedes developed the proportions necessary for effecting this comparison, in his treatises on the sphere and cylinder, the spheroid and conoid, and in his work on the measure of the circle.

From Anecdotes of Painters, Engravers, Sculptors and Architects and Curiosities of Art (Vol. 3 of 3) by Shearjashub Spooner

Mr. Worms, in a series of experiments carried out at King's College, London, adopted a somewhat similar arrangement, but in place of the hemispherical segment he employed a conoid, as shown in Fig.

From Scientific American Supplement, No. 447, July 26, 1884 by Various

Apart from its pillars, the egg-pocket is an inverted conoid, reminding us of the work of the Silky Epeira. 

From The Life of the Spider by Alexander Teixeira de Mattos

The fracture may take place through the attachment of the conoid and trapezoid ligaments, in which case the only symptoms are pain and tenderness at the seat of fracture, with impaired movement of the limb.

From Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities—Head—Neck. Sixth Edition. by Alexander Miles


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