Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Having the form of a conoid: as, a conoidal bullet.
- Approaching to a conical form; nearly but not exactly conical.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Nearly, but not exactly, conical.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective having the shape of a
conoid ; having a roughlyconical shape
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Examples
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The hemispherical, conoidal, parabolic and blunt trifaced all give more or less of the wedging effect.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 803, May 23, 1891 Various
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The red rover of that region will disappear as a combatant in the same way, and before the same weapon, as his brother nomad of Algeria, the earliest victim of the conoidal bullet.
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 15, No. 85, January, 1875 Various
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In this motion, the string forms a sort of conoidal surface, distended by centrifugal force.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 1082, September 26, 1896 Various
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How the conoidal bullet and rifled barrel, opposed at Inkermann to the antiquated Russian musket, tore through the dense columns which had forced their way to the brow of the plateau, driving the stolid
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 15, No. 85, January, 1875 Various
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And a moment later a conoidal bullet struck him square in the chest and knocked him flat in the dirt among his comrades.
Ailsa Paige 1899
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Keen has recorded a case in which a conoidal ball lodged in the body of the third cervical vertebra, from which it was extracted six weeks later.
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Keen has recorded a case in which a conoidal ball lodged in the body of the third cervical vertebra, from which it was extracted six weeks later.
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The _Stomach_ is a musculo-membranous, conoidal sac, communicating with the esophagus by means of the cardiac orifice (see Fig. 28).
The People's Common Sense Medical Adviser in Plain English or, Medicine Simplified, 54th ed., One Million, Six Hundred and Fifty Thousand Ray Vaughn Pierce 1877
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There are a number of extraordinary acuminations; but the most impressive shape is the nearest, -- a tremendous conoidal mass crowned with a group of peaks, of which two, taller than the rest, tell their name at once by the beauty of their forms, -- the Pitons of Carbet.
Two Years in the French West Indies Lafcadio Hearn 1877
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One of the best general views of the brightest and best of the Yosemite park landscapes that every Yosemite tourist should see, is to be had from the top of Fairview Dome, a lofty conoidal rock near Cathedral Peak that long ago I named the Tuolumne Glacier Monument, one of the most striking and best preserved of the domes.
The Yosemite John Muir 1876
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