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Definition of Conical
1. Adjective. Relating to or resembling a cone. "Conelike fruit"
Partainyms: Cone, Cone, Cone, Cone
Derivative terms: Cone, Cone, Conic, Cone, Cone, Cone
Definition of Conical
1. Adjective. (geometry) Of or relating to a cone or cones. ¹
2. Adjective. Shaped like a cone. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Conical
1. shaped like a cone [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Conical
Literary usage of Conical
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. United States Supreme Court Reports by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, United States Supreme Court (1887)
"The first reissue further described the conical feed rolls as made of such taper
as to conform to the shape of the skirt or border to be quilted, ..."
2. A Treatise on Light by Robert Alexander Houstoun (1915)
"External conical Refraction. An infinite number of tangent planes can be drawn
to the wave-surface at the vertex of the conical depression where the two ..."
3. A Treatise on Universal Algebra: With Applications by Alfred North Whitehead, ( (1898)
"RECIPROCAL EQUATIONS AND conical QUADRICS. (1) When the quadric (at^a;)' = 0 is
conical, the reciprocal equation of ..."
4. Troja: Results of the Latest Researches and Discoveries on the Site of Homer by Heinrich Schliemann, Archibald Henry Sayce (1884)
"THE conical MOUNDS, CALLED HEROIC TUMULI. § /. T/ie Tumulus of Achilles. ...
With regard to the large conical hill on the projecting headland, ..."
5. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1874)
"conical stumps may arise from excessive ossification of the interosseous ligament,
which not unfrequently takes place, generally as the result of chronic ..."
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