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right 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.

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- of a circular cone is the radius of its base; often this is simply called the radius of the cone. The aperture of a right circular cone is the maximum...
- A right frustum is a right pyramid or a right cone truncated perpendicularly to its axis; otherwise, it is an oblique frustum. In a truncated cone or...
- Given the problem of the aerodynamic design of the nose cone section of any vehicle or body meant to travel through a compressible fluid medium (such as...
- In linear algebra, a cone—sometimes called a linear cone to distinguish it from other sorts of cones—is a subset of a real vector space that is closed...
- 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...
- definitions for a tangent cone, including the adjacent cone, Bouligand's contingent cone, and the Clarke tangent cone. These three cones coincide for a convex...
- with the surface of a double cone (a cone with two nappes). It is usually ****umed that the cone is a right circular cone for the purpose of easy description...
- Traffic cones, also called pylons, witches' hats, road cones, highway cones, safety cones, caution cones, channelizing devices, construction cones, roadworks...
- for five different teams. Cone batted left-handed and threw right-handed. On the final game of the 1991 regular season, Cone struck out 19 batters, tied...
- The learning pyramid (also known as “the cone of learning”, “the learning cone”, “the cone of retention”, “the pyramid of learning”, or “the pyramid of...