Definition of Conoids

1. conoid [n] - See also: conoid

Lexicographical Neighbors of Conoids

connusances
connusant
connusor
connusors
conny
conocuneus
conodal
conodont
conodonts
conoid
conoid ligament
conoid process
conoid tubercle
conoidal
conoidic
conoids (current term)
conominee
conominees
conomyoidin
conor and bruch's disease
conoscopic image
conoscopic observation
conotruncal
conotruncus
conperson
conpersons
conquer
conquerable
conquerableness
conquered

Literary usage of Conoids

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Conic sections, treated geometrically by William Henry Besant (1875)
"THE OBLIQUE CYLINDER, THE OBLIQUE CONE, AND THE conoids. 230. DEF. If a straight line, which is not perpendicular to the plane of a given circle, ..."

2. The Excise Officer's Manual, and Improved Gauger: Being a Compendious by Joseph Bateman (1840)
"Of Spheroids, conoids, and Spindles.* A spheroid is a solid which may be supposed to be generated by the revolution of an ellipsis about one of its axes ..."

3. The Works of Archimedes by Archimedes (1897)
"ON conoids AND SPHEROIDS. Introduction*. "ARCHIMEDES to Dositheus greeting. In this book I have set forth and send you the proofs of the remaining theorems ..."

4. Scribner's Engineers' and Mechanics' Companion: Comprising United States by J. M. Scribner (1849)
"OF PARABOLIC conoids AND SPINDLES. PROBLEM XII. To find the Solidity of a Parabolic Conoid. Rule.—Multiply the square of the diameter of the ..."

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