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cone::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | cone shape, conoid |
| Type of | round shape |
| Has types | funnel, funnel shape |
| Derivation | conic, conical |
cone::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | cone cell, retinal cone |
| Type of | visual cell |
Examples of cone
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A pine cone strapped on with a reusable wire star garland imparts a woodsy look.
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The big cone sits on a grassy patch within a ring of old, pink-painted bicycles.
From the dallasnews.com
I'd attempt to drop yellow rings on a white cone, but the cone appeared to move.
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When it blooms, it's a big red pine cone that comes up on the side of the plant.
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A cone has the property of resonating at different frequencies along its height.
From the newscientist.com
Some 2.3m live in the northern cone, the oldest-established and most prosperous.
From the economist.com
Sometimes you just need a place to look up the formula for the volume of a cone.
From the scienceblogs.com
Here, she shows the Eastern white pine's bundle of needles and form of its cone.
From the washingtonpost.com
Neurotoxins of cone snails and spiders block neurotransmission and chronic pain.
From the sciencedaily.com
- Make cone-shaped; "cone a tire"
- A shape whose base is a circle and whose sides taper up to a point
- Cone-shaped mass of ovule- or spore-bearing scales or bracts
- A visual receptor cell in the retina that is sensitive to bright light and to color
- Conidae is a taxonomic family of minute to quite large sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Conoidea.
- A cone (in formal botanical usage: strobilus, plural strobili) is an organ on plants in the division Pinophyta (conifers) that contains the reproductive structures. The familiar woody cone is the female cone, which produces seeds. ...
- In category theory, a branch of mathematics, the cone of a functor is an abstract notion used to define the limit of that functor. Cones make other appearances in category theory as well.
- In formal language theory, a cone is a set of formal languages that has some desirable closure properties enjoyed by some well-known sets of languages, in particular by the families of regular languages, context-free languages and the recursive languages . ...
- A cone is a three-dimensional geometric shape that tapers smoothly from a flat, usually circular base to a point called the apex or vertex. ...
