conoid

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. sıfat Shaped like a cone; conical.

   “The rebuilding of Oxford Road Station, Manchester […] is progressing steadily, and the conoid roof has recently been erected.”

2. isim Anything shaped like a cone.

   “The concourse is roofed with three conoids, ranging in width from 97 ft. 3 in. maximum to 41 ft. 6 in. minimum.”

3. isim A Catalan surface all of whose rulings intersect some fixed line
4. isim A solid formed by the revolution of a conic section about its axis

   “A parabolic conoid is a paraboloid; an elliptic conoid is an ellipsoid.”

5. isim The pineal gland