conoid

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Definition of conoid

5 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included

adj

  1. Shaped like a cone; conical.
    “The rebuilding of Oxford Road Station, Manchester […] is progressing steadily, and the conoid roof has recently been erected.”
    “Historic England explained the listing: "The station's unique design employs a high level of sophistication and innovation through its use of conoid shells supported on a cruck-like frame, which not only create a dramatic aesthetic form, but endow the building with a light and spacious interior."”
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adj

  1. Shaped like a cone; conical.
    “The rebuilding of Oxford Road Station, Manchester […] is progressing steadily, and the conoid roof has recently been erected.”
    “Historic England explained the listing: "The station's unique design employs a high level of sophistication and innovation through its use of conoid shells supported on a cruck-like frame, which not only create a dramatic aesthetic form, but endow the building with a light and spacious interior."”

noun

  1. Anything shaped like a cone.
    “The concourse is roofed with three conoids, ranging in width from 97 ft. 3 in. maximum to 41 ft. 6 in. minimum.”
  2. A Catalan surface all of whose rulings intersect some fixed line
  3. A solid formed by the revolution of a conic section about its axis
    “A parabolic conoid is a paraboloid; an elliptic conoid is an ellipsoid.”
  4. The pineal gland

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Etymology

From cone + -oid.

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