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conoid

conoid adjective: shaped like a cone; conical.

Adjective

conoid (comparative more conoid, superlative most conoid)

  1. Shaped like a cone; conical.
    • The rebuilding of Oxford Road Station, Manchester […] is progressing steadily, and the conoid roof has recently been erected.1959 May, “Notes and News: Oxford Road Station, Manchester”, in Railway Magazine, page 359
    • 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."2023 March 22, Philip Haigh, “Five configuration stages to boost Manchester rail capacity”, in RAIL, number 979, page 31

Noun

conoid (plural conoids)

  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.1959 May, “Notes and News: Oxford Road Station, Manchester”, in Railway Magazine, page 359
  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

conoid meaning in Urdu

conoid in Urdu

گاؤ دم, مخروطی

Forms of conoid

Adjective
comparativemore conoid
superlativemost conoid
Noun
pluralconoids

Origin of conoid

From cone + -oid.

Words formed from conoid

Questions about conoid

What does conoid mean?
Conoid means shaped like a cone; conical.
What is conoid in Urdu?
Conoid in Urdu is گاؤ دم, مخروطی. See Conoid meaning in Urdu.
What part of speech is conoid?
Conoid can be an adjective or a noun.

Words near conoid in the dictionary

  1. conodipines
  2. conodont
  3. conodontology
  4. conodonts
  5. conodurine
  6. conoid
  7. conoidal
  8. conoidally
  9. conoidean
  10. conoideans
  11. conoidic

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Adapted from Wiktionary: conoid (page history and authors); conoid (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors). 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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