Definition of Cone of rays. Meaning of Cone of rays. Synonyms of Cone of rays

Here you will find one or more explanations in English for the word Cone of rays. Also in the bottom left of the page several parts of wikipedia pages related to the word Cone of rays and, of course, Cone of rays synonyms and on the right images related to the word Cone of rays.

Definition of Cone of rays

Cone of rays
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 of rays from wikipedia

- The entrance pupil defines the cone of rays that can enter and p**** through the optical system. Rays that fall outside of the entrance pupil will not p****...
- Cone tracing and beam tracing are a derivative of the ray tracing algorithm that replaces rays, which have no thickness, with thick rays. In ray tracing...
- "a double cone of rays, joined together at the base." In his 1829 A System of Optics, Henry Coddington defines a pencil as being "a parcel of light proceeding...
- primarily determines the cone of rays that an optical system accepts (see entrance pupil). As a result, it also determines the ray cone angle and brightness...
- of the cone of rays accepted by the microscope objective. The angular size of the central bright portion (radius to first null of the Airy disk) of the...
- two cone shaped rays, and a planar radially expanding, elliptically shaped chakram. Mz 3 is a complex system composed of three nested pairs of bipolar...
- the glowing wall of the tube, indicating the rays were travelling in straight lines. In 1890, Arthur Schuster demonstrated cathode rays could be deflected...
- medical imaging technique consisting of X-ray computed tomography where the X-rays are divergent, forming a cone. CBCT has become increasingly important...
- collection of incoming rays is maximized by allowing off-axis rays to make multiple reflections before reaching the exit aperture. Winston cones are used...
- cosmic ray hadrons to gamma rays also gives a clue as to the origin of cosmic rays. Although gamma rays could be produced near the source of cosmic rays, they...