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Definition of Conoid

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

Definition of Conoid

1. n. Anything that has a form resembling that of a cone.

2. a. Resembling a cone; conoidal.

Definition of Conoid

1. Adjective. Shaped like a cone; conical ¹

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Definition of Conoid

1. a geometric solid [n -S] : CONOIDAL [adj]

Medical Definition of Conoid

1. 1. A cone-shaped structure. 2. Part of the apical complex characteristic of the protozoan subphylum, Apicomplexa; seen in sporozoites, merozoites, or other developmental stages of sporozoans, less well developed in the piroplasms (families Babesiidae and Theileriidae). The function of the conoid is unknown, but it is thought to be an organelle of penetration into the host cell, possibly aided by a protrusible form of the conoid. Origin: G. Konoeides, cone-shaped (05 Mar 2000)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Conoid

Literary usage of Conoid

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

1. A New and Complete System of Arithmetick: Composed for the Use of the by Nicolas Pike, Chester Dewey (1822)
"This solid is made by a plane passing through the conoid parallel to its ... conoid be 40 and 30 inches, and its height 20 inches ; required its solidity. ..."

2. Elements of the Integral Calculus: With a Key to the Solution of by Benjamin Osgood Peirce, William Elwood Byerly (1892)
"Let us find the volume of a conoid when the director line and curve are ... Divide the conoid into laminae by planes parallel to the fixed plane. Let A? ..."

3. Hawney's Complete Measurer: Or, The Whole Art of Measuring. Being a Plain by William Hawney, Thomas Keith, John D. Craig (1820)
"For if two equal ^ frustums of a parabolic conoid'8' B66B, ... Required the solidity of the frustum of a para* bolic conoid, whose greater diameter is 30, ..."

4. The Elements of Descriptive Geometry: Shadows and Perspective. With a Brief by Samuel Edward Warren (1877)
"To construct the projections of a conoid. In Space.—In practice, the plane director may generally be made a plane of projection, ..."

5. Primary Object Lessons: For Training the Senses and Developing the Faculties by Norman Allison Calkins (1898)
"conoid.—When the sides of a conical solid do not taper regularly to the apex, ... The sides of the cone taper in straight lines, but the sides of a conoid ..."

6. General Problems of Shades and Shadows: Formed Both by Parallel and by by Samuel Edward Warren (1867)
"To construct points of the curve of shade of a conoid. Principles.—Let the curved directrix of the conoid lie in the horizontal plane, let its rectilinear ..."

7. An Elementary Treatise on Fourier's Series and Spherical, Cylindrical, and by William Elwood Byerly (1902)
"Let us find the volume of a conoid when the director line and curve arc ... Divide the conoid into laminae by planes parallel to the fixed plane. ..."

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