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Definition of Cone

Cone
Cone Cone, v. t. To render cone-shaped; to bevel like the circular segment of a cone; as, to cone the tires of car wheels.
Cone
Cone Cone, n. [L. conus cone (in sense 1), Gr. ?; akin to Skr. [,c]ana whetstone, L. cuneus wedge, and prob. to E. hone. See Hone, n.] 1. (Geom.) A solid of the form described by the revolution of a right-angled triangle about one of the sides adjacent to the right angle; -- called also a right cone. More generally, any solid having a vertical point and bounded by a surface which is described by a straight line always passing through that vertical point; a solid having a circle for its base and tapering to a point or vertex. 2. Anything shaped more or less like a mathematical cone; as, a volcanic cone, a collection of scori[ae] around the crater of a volcano, usually heaped up in a conical form. Now had Night measured with her shadowy cone Half way up hill this vast sublunar vault. --Milton. 3. (Bot.) The fruit or strobile of the Conifer[ae], as of the pine, fir, cedar, and cypress. It is composed of woody scales, each one of which has one or two seeds at its base. 4. (Zo["o]l.) A shell of the genus Conus, having a conical form. Cone of rays (Opt.), the pencil of rays of light which proceed from a radiant point to a given surface, as that of a lens, or conversely. Cone pulley. See in the Vocabulary. Oblique or Scalene cone, a cone of which the axis is inclined to the plane of its base. Eight cone. See Cone, 1.

Meaning of Cone from wikipedia

- A cone is a three-dimensional geometric shape that tapers smoothly from a flat base (frequently, though not necessarily, circular) to a point called the...
- The cone of Pinophyta (conifer clade) contains the reproductive structures. The woody cone is the female cone, which produces plants. The male cone, which...
- Cone snails, or cones, are highly venomous sea snails of the family Conidae. Fossils of cone snails have been found from the Eocene to the Holocene epochs...
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- Dual cone and polar cone are closely related concepts in convex analysis, a branch of mathematics. The dual cone C* of a subset C in a linear space X...
- Cone of silence may refer to: Cone of silence (Dune), a fictional device used for privacy in the 1965 novel Dune Cone of Silence (Get Smart), a fictional...
- Cone-in-cone structures are secondary sedimentary structures that form in ****ociation with deeper burial and diagenesis. They consist of concentric inter-bedded...
- Traffic cones, also called pylons, witches' hats, road cones, highway cones, safety cones, caution cones, channelizing devices, construction cones, roadworks...
- A cinder cone (or scoria cone) is a steep conical hill of loose pyroclastic fragments, such as volcanic clinkers, volcanic ash, or scoria that has been...
- John Cone (born November 16, 1974) is an American professional wrestling referee who works for WWE under the Raw brand. Cone also works in the corporate...