Definition of Conchoids

1. conchoid [n] - See also: conchoid

Lexicographical Neighbors of Conchoids

conchiferous
conchiform
conchifragous
conchiglie
conching
conchinine
conchiolin
conchite
conchites
conchitic
concho
conchoid
conchoidal
conchoidal bodies
conchoidally
conchoids (current term)
conchological
conchologies
conchologist
conchologists
conchology
conchometry
conchos
conchospiral
conchospirals
conchs
conchy
conchyliometry
conchæ
conciator

Literary usage of Conchoids

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

1. An Analytick Treatise of Conick Sections, and Their Use for Resolving of by L'Hospital (Guillaume François Antoine), Edmund Stone (1723)
"That one of the conchoids, does pafs through the fixed Point C, ... the conchoids, falls in CB\ and io the Line MF M going through the Point i1, ..."

2. The Mechanics' Magazine, Museum, Register, Journal, and Gazette (1830)
"5, marked A,is represented rolling on the line of the cusps on fig. 4, marked B, by which motion the conchoids will be produced ; which shows that all the ..."

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