conical
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[edit]- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈkɒnɪkəl/
- (General American) IPA(key): /ˈkɑnɪkəl/
Audio (US): (file) - Hyphenation: con‧i‧cal
Adjective
[edit]conical (comparative more conical, superlative most conical)
- (geometry) Of or relating to a cone or cones.
- 1665 November 6, “An Account of Hevelius his Prodromus Cometicus, together with some Animadversions made upon it by a French Philosopher”, in Henry Oldenburg, editor, Philosophical Transactions, volume I, number 6:
- He anſwers, That this Motion is Conical; and judgeth, that by the Conick path all the Phænomena of Comets can, without any inconveniency, be readily ſolved; even of that, which (by Hiſtory) in fifty days, paſſed through more then the 12 Signs of the Zodiack; And of that, which in two days run through eight Signs: and of another, which in 48 days poſted through all the Signs, contra ſeriem.
- Shaped like a cone.
- 1624, Edmund Gunter, chapter XIII, in The Description and Vse of the Sector[1], London: Williã Jones, page 149:
- IN Planes neither equinoctiall nor polar, the equator will be a right line, the tropiques and other parallels of declination will be conicall ſections, ſome of them parabolicall, ſome ellipticall, but the moſt of them hyperbolicall.
- (cartography) Describing a map projection in which meridians are mapped to equally spaced lines radiating out from the apex and parallels of latitude are mapped to circular arcs centred on the apex.
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[edit]of or relating to a cone
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cone-shaped
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Noun
[edit]conical (plural conicals)