Definition of Cones. Meaning of Cones. Synonyms of Cones

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Definition of Cones

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 Cones from wikipedia

- Contrasted with right cones are oblique cones, in which the axis p****es through the centre of the base non-perpendicularly. A cone with a polygonal base...
- cones jam (Ukraine). Pinus canariensis male cone in Gran Canaria. Pine cones More pine cones The cone structure of Abies bracteata Top of a pine cone...
- as are the cones with ellipsoidal base (often called "spherical cones", "Lorentz cones", or sometimes "ice-cream cones"). So are all cones in R3 whose...
- Traffic cones, also called pylons, witches' hats, road cones, highway cones, safety cones, caution cones, channelizing devices, construction cones, roadworks...
- In linear algebra, a cone—sometimes called a linear cone for distinguishing it from other sorts of cones—is a subset of a vector space that is closed...
- to stimuli are faster than those of rods. Cones are normally one of three types: S-cones, M-cones and L-cones. Each type expresses a different opsin: OPN1SW...
- The Ministry of Higher Education, Science and Technology (Spanish: Ministerio de Educación Superior, Ciencia y Tecnología or MESCYT) of the Dominican Republic...
- volcanic cones include stratocones, spatter cones, tuff cones, and cinder cones. Stratocones are large cone-shaped volcanoes made up of lava flows, explosively...
- cone (or snow kone, sno kone, sno-kone, sno cone, or sno-cone) is a variation of shaved ice or ground-up ice desserts commonly served in paper cones or...
- cones formed in Hawaiian-type eruptions are spatter cones rather than cinder cones, due to the fluid nature of the lava. The most famous cinder cone,...