Cone - Law Dictionary Search Results
Home Dictionary Name: coneCone in cone
Consisting of a series of parallel cones each made up of many concentric cones closely packed together said of a kind of structure sometimes observed in sedimentary rocks...
Pseudo cone
One of the soft gelatinous cones found in the compound eyes of certain insects taking the place of the crystalline cones of others...
Cone
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...
Hyperbola
A curve formed by a section of a cone when the cutting plane makes a greater angle with the base than the side of the cone makes It is a plane curve such that the difference of the distances from any point of it to two fixed points called foci is equal to a given distance See Focus If the cutting plane be produced so as to cut the opposite cone another curve will be formed which is also an hyperbola Both curves are regarded as branches of the same hyperbola See Illust of Conic section and Focus...
Coneflower
Any plant of the genus Rudbeckia so called from the cone shaped disk of the flower head They are cultivated for their large usually yellow daisies with prominent central cones Also any plant of the related genera Ratibida and Brauneria the latter usually known as purple coneflower...
Conico
A combining form meaning somewhat resembling a cone as conico cylindrical resembling a cone and a cylinder conico hemispherical conico subulate...
Pina
A cone of silver amalgam prepared for retorting also the residuary cone of spongy silver left after the retorting...
Pineal
Of or pertaining to a pine cone resembling a pine cone...
Belemnite
A conical calcareous fossil tapering to a point at the lower extremity with a conical cavity at the other end where it is ordinarily broken but when perfect it contains a small chambered cone called the phragmocone prolonged on one side into a delicate concave blade the thunderstone It is the internal shell of a cephalopod related to the sepia and belonging to an extinct family The belemnites are found in rocks of the Jurassic and Cretaceous ages...
Bevel gear
A kind of gear in which the two wheels working together lie in different planes and have their teeth cut at right angles to the surfaces of two cones whose apices coincide with the point where the axes of the wheels would meet...
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