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Definition of Cone

1. Noun. Any cone-shaped artifact.

2. Verb. Make cone-shaped. "Cone a tire"

3. Noun. A shape whose base is a circle and whose sides taper up to a point.

4. Noun. Cone-shaped mass of ovule- or spore-bearing scales or bracts.

5. Noun. A visual receptor cell in the retina that is sensitive to bright light and to color.

Definition of Cone

1. n. A solid of the form described by the revolution of a right-angled triangle about one of the sides adjacent to the right angle; -- called also a right cone. More generally, any solid having a vertical point and bounded by a surface which is described by a straight line always passing through that vertical point; a solid having a circle for its base and tapering to a point or vertex.

2. v. t. To render cone-shaped; to bevel like the circular segment of a cone; as, to cone the tires of car wheels.

Definition of Cone

1. Noun. (geometry) A surface of revolution formed by rotating a segment of a line around another line that intersects the first line. ¹

2. Noun. (geometry) A solid of revolution formed by rotating a triangle around one of its altitudes. ¹

3. Noun. (topology) A space formed by taking the direct product of a given space with a closed interval and identifying all of one end to a point. ¹

4. Noun. Anything shaped like a cone.''The Illustrated Oxford Dictionary'', Oxford University Press, 1998 ¹

5. Noun. The fruit of a conifer. ¹

6. Noun. An ice cream cone. ¹

7. Noun. A unit of volume, applied solely to marijuana and only while it is in a smokable state; roughly 1.5 cubic centimetres, depending on use. ¹

8. Noun. Any of the small cone-shaped structures in the retina. ¹

9. Noun. (slang) The bowl piece on a bong. ¹

10. Noun. (slang) The process of smoking cannabis in a bong. ¹

11. Noun. (slang) A cone-shaped cannabis joint. ¹

12. Noun. (category theory) Given a diagram ''F'' : ''J'' → ''C'', a ''cone'' consists of an object ''N'' of ''C'', together with a family of morphisms ψ_''X'' : ''N'' → ''F''(''X'') indexed by all of the objects of ''J'', such that for every morphism ''f'' : ''X'' → ''Y'' in ''J'', $F(f)\; \backslash circ\; \backslash psi\_X\; =\; \backslash psi\_Y$. Then ''N'' is the ''vertex'' of the ''cone'', whose ''sides'' are all the ψ_''X'' indexed by Ob(''J'') and whose ''base'' is ''F''. The ''cone'' is said to be "from ''N'' to ''F''" and can be denoted as (''N'', ψ). ¹

13. Verb. (context: pottery) To fashion into the shape of a ''cone''. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Cone

1. to shape like a cone (a geometric solid) [v CONED, CONING, CONES]

Medical Definition of Cone

1. 1. In gymnosperms and club mosses, a group of sporophylls arranged compactly on a central axis, in the angiosperm family Casuarina, a woody multiple fruit incorporating the bracts and bracteoles associated with the flowers. 2. The retinal cone responsible for colour vision. (03 Jul 1999)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Cone

condyloma latum condylomas condylomata condylomatous condylotomy condylus condylus humeri condylus lateralis femoris condylus lateralis tibiae condylus medialis

condylus medialis femoris condylus medialis tibiae condylus occipitalis cone-bearing cone-in-cone cone-nosed bug cone-shaped cone biopsy cone cells cone clutch

cone degeneration cone disks cone down cone dystrophy cone fibre

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