Conchoid - Law Dictionary Search Results
Home Dictionary Name: conchoidConchoid
A curve of the fourth degree first made use of by the Greek geometer Nicomedes who invented it for the purpose of trisecting an angle and duplicating the cube...
Conchoidal
Having elevations or depressions in form like one half of a bivalve shell applied principally to a surface produced by fracture...
Flint
A massive somewhat impure variety of quartz in color usually of a gray to brown or nearly black breaking with a conchoidal fracture and sharp edge It is very hard and strikes fire with steel...
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