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conospherical

conospherical adjective: with a form that combines a conical portion with a spherical portion, such as a tapering stylus with a rounded tip.

Adjective

conospherical (not comparable)

  1. With a form that combines a conical portion with a spherical portion, such as a tapering stylus with a rounded tip.
    • The indentation experiments were performed with a conospherical tip (tip radius = ~1 µm; semi-angle = 30°; maximum load = 10 mN).2014, Ling Li, Christine Ortiz, “Pervasive nanoscale deformation twinning as a catalyst for efficient energy dissipation in a bioceramic armour”, in Nature Materials, volume 13, →DOI, supplementary...

Origin of conospherical

From cono- + spherical.

Questions about conospherical

What does conospherical mean?
Conospherical means with a form that combines a conical portion with a spherical portion, such as a tapering stylus with a rounded tip.
What part of speech is conospherical?
Conospherical is an adjective.

Words near conospherical in the dictionary

  1. conoscente
  2. conoscenti
  3. conoscopic
  4. conoscopy
  5. conoseptal
  6. conospherical
  7. conotoxin
  8. conotoxine
  9. conotoxines
  10. conotoxins
  11. conotruncal

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