Definition of Conicity

1. the state of being conical [n -TIES]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Conicity

conic sections
conic waxycap
conical
conical buoy
conical catheter
conical cornea
conical flask
conical flasks
conical papillae
conical projection
conicality
conically
conicalness
conichalcite
conicities
conicity (current term)
conico-
conics
conidia
conidial
conidian
conidiation
conidiogenesis
conidiogenous
conidiophore
conidiophores
conidiospores
conies

Literary usage of Conicity

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A Treatise on the Diseases of the Eye by John Soelberg Wells (1883)
"If we then look at. it in profile, the size and shape of the conicity will become at ... On account of the conicity of the central portion of the cornea, ..."

2. Surgery of genito-urinary organs by John William Severin Gouley (1907)
"Besides the correction of their curve, sounds which are given a moderate conicity, making them practically cylindric wedges, are introduced more easily and ..."

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