conical
/ˈkɒn.ɪ.kəl/
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Australia/ˈkɔn.ɪ.kəl/
conical adjective: of or relating to a cone or cones.
Adjective
conical (comparative more conical, superlative most conical)
- Of or relating to a cone or cones.
- 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...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...
- Shaped like a cone.
- 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.1624, Edmund Gunter, chapter XIII, in The Description and Vse of the Sector, London: Williã Jones, page 149
- Synonyms:
- conic
- 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.
- Synonyms:
- conic
Noun
conical (plural conicals)
- A cone-shaped bullet.
conical meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Urdu and Bengali
conical in Hindi
- shaped like a cone
- शंक्वाकार śaṅkvākār
conical in Tamil
- கூம்பு, கூம்பிய, கூம்பு உரு
conical in Urdu
- گاو دم
conical in Bengali
- শঙ্কুর মতো
More languagesFewer languages
- conical in Telugu
- కిరీటాకృతి kirīṭākr̥ti
- conical in Malayalam
- കോണാകൃതിയായ, കോണാകാരമായ, സൂചന്യാകാരമായ, തൂശൻ
- conical in Arabic
- مَخْرُوطِيّ maḵrūṭiyy
- conical in Indonesian
- konis
Examples of conical in a sentence
- A party hat is a playful conical hat people wear at parties.
- More conical backbores give a richer tone, while more cylindrical ones give a brighter, more projected tone.
- A tajine is a heavy ceramic plate covered with a conical lid of the same material.
Synonyms of conical
Forms of conical
| Adjective | |
|---|---|
| comparative | more conical |
| superlative | most conical |
| Noun | |
| plural | conicals |
Origin of conical
From conic + -al.
Words formed from conical
- Asian conical hat
- biconical
- conical buoy
- conical drum
- conical flask
- conical hat
- conicality
- conically
- conicalness
- conical pepper
- conical surface
- conicity
- cylindroconical
- diconical
- double conical drum
- double-conical drum
- frusto-conical
- monoconical
- nonconical
- obconical
- planoconical
- pseudoconical
- semiconical
- subconical
Phrases with conical
Questions about conical
- What does conical mean?
- Conical means of or relating to a cone or cones.
- What is conical in Hindi?
- Conical in Hindi is शंक्वाकार (śaṅkvākār). See Conical meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is conical?
- Conical can be an adjective or a noun.
- How do you pronounce conical?
- Conical is pronounced /ˈkɒn.ɪ.kəl/ (UK).
Words near conical in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: conical (page history and authors); conical (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); conical (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); conical (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); conical (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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