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conoids

conoids is the plural of conoid.

Meaning of conoid

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

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Questions about conoids

What is conoids the plural of?
Conoids is the plural of conoid.

Words near conoids in the dictionary

  1. conoidally
  2. conoidean
  3. conoideans
  4. conoidic
  5. conoidical
  6. conoids
  7. conolidine
  8. Conolly
  9. Conollys
  10. conomarphin
  11. conomarphins

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