Definition of Conoidal

1. a. Nearly, but not exactly, conical.

Definition of Conoidal

1. Adjective. having the shape of a conoid; having a roughly conical shape ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Conoidal

1. conoid [adj] - See also: conoid

Lexicographical Neighbors of Conoidal

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

Literary usage of Conoidal

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

1. A Treatise on Infinitesimal Calculus: Containing Differential and Integral by Bartholomew Price (1857)
"Of this class of surfaces two kinds require special mention ; viz. conoidal surfaces, and those surfaces which are generated by a straight line moving on ..."

2. A Treatise on the Analytic Geometry of Three Dimensions by George Salmon (1865)
"... be parallel to the plane 7; the equations of the generator are o = c,)8, <y=ca, and the general equation of conoidal surfaces is obviously -5 = (j> (7). ..."

3. Report of the Annual Meeting (1872)
"Exhibition and Description of a Model of a conoidal Cubic Surface called the ... The locus of this single screw is the conoidal cubic surface which has been ..."

4. The Quartz Operator's Hand-book by P. M. Randall (1871)
"They are named according to the form of their respective bottoms, to wit : the Plane¡ Concave and conoidal, In the Plane, the quicksilver spreading over the ..."

5. An Elementary Treatise on Solid Geometry by Charles Smith (1886)
"To find the general functional and differential equations of conoidal surfaces. DBF. A conoidal surface is a surface generated by the motion of a straight ..."

6. A Treatise on the Application of Analysis to Solid Geometry by Duncan Farquharson Gregory, William Walton (1845)
"conoidal Surfaces. (206) conoidal surfaces are generated by the motion of a straight line which passes through a fixed axis and remains always perpendicular ..."

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