cone, conoid, cone shape
(noun) a shape whose base is a circle and whose sides taper up to a point
Source: WordNet® 3.1
conoid (comparative more conoid, superlative most conoid)
Shaped like a cone; conical
conoid (plural conoids)
Anything shaped like a cone.
(geometry) A Catalan surface all of whose rulings intersect some fixed line.
(geometry) A solid formed by the revolution of a conic section about its axis.
• (geometry): right conoid ⊃ hyperbolic paraboloid
Source: Wiktionary
Co"noid, n. Etym: [Gr. conoĂŻde.]
1. Anything that has a form resembling that of a cone.
2. (Geom.) (a) A solid formed by the revolution of a conic section about its axis; as, a parabolic conoid, elliptic conoid, etc.; -- more commonly called paraboloid, ellipsoid, etc. (b) A surface which may be generated by a straight line moving in such a manner as always to meet a given straight line and a given curve, and continue parallel to a given plane. Math. Dict.
Co"noid
Definition: , Resembling a cone; conoidal.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
2 April 2025
(adjective) secret or hidden; not openly practiced or engaged in or shown or avowed; “covert actions by the CIA”; “covert funding for the rebels”
According to Guinness World Records, on 25 September 2016, the Birla Institute of Management Technology (India) in Uttar Pradesh, India, constructed the largest coffee cups pyramid consisting of 23,821 cups. They used paper takeaway coffee cups to build the pyramid.
