What does "cone" mean?
A surface of revolution formed by rotating a segment of a line around another line that intersects the first line.
Cone
/ˈkəʊn/ name, noun, verb, slang
name, noun, verb, slang ·Common ·High school level
Meaning at a glance
- Primary sense: A surface of revolution formed by rotating a segment of a line around another line that intersects the first line.
- Grammar: cone is listed as name, noun, verb, slang.
- Nearest alternatives: acoustical network, ament, capacitor speaker, capitulum.
- Useful contrasts: barrier, bolas, bowl.
- Usage evidence: Can you give me the definition of a cone?
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Definitions
Noun
- 1 A surface of revolution formed by rotating a segment of a line around another line that intersects the first line.
- 2 any cone-shaped artifact wordnet
- 3 A solid of revolution formed by rotating a triangle around one of its altitudes.
- 4 a visual receptor cell in the retina that is sensitive to bright light and to color wordnet
- 5 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.
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- 6 cone-shaped mass of ovule- or spore-bearing scales or bracts wordnet
- 7 Anything in the general shape of a cone.; The fruit of a conifer.
- 8 a shape whose base is a circle and whose sides taper up to a point wordnet
- 9 Anything in the general shape of a cone.; A cone-shaped flower head of various plants, such as banksias and proteas.
- 10 Anything in the general shape of a cone.; A cone-shaped flower head of various plants, such as banksias and proteas.; 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.
- 11 Anything in the general shape of a cone.; An ice cream cone.
- 12 Anything in the general shape of a cone.; A traffic cone.
- 13 Anything in the general shape of a cone.; A traffic cone.; A passenger on a cruise ship (that needs to be navigated around). broadly, slang
- 14 Anything in the general shape of a cone.; A cone-shaped cannabis joint. slang
- 15 Anything in the general shape of a cone.; A shell of the genus Conus, having a conical form.
- 16 Any of the small cone-shaped structures in the retina.
- 17 The bowl piece on a bong. slang
- 18 The bowl piece on a bong.; The process of smoking cannabis in a bong. slang
- 19 An object V together with an arrow going from V to each object of a diagram such that for any arrow A in the diagram, the pair of arrows from V which subtend A also commute with it. (Then V can be said to be the cone’s vertex and the diagram which the cone subtends can be said to be its base.)
"A cone is an object (the apex) and a natural transformation from a constant functor (whose image is the apex of the cone and its identity morphism) to a diagram functor. Its components are projections from the apex to the objects of the diagram and it has a “naturality triangle” for each morphism in the diagram. (A “naturality triangle” is just a naturality square which is degenerate at its apex side.)"
- 20 A set of formal languages with certain desirable closure properties, in particular those of the regular languages, the context-free languages and the recursively enumerable languages.
Verb
- 1 To fashion into the shape of a cone. transitive
- 2 make cone-shaped wordnet
- 3 To form a cone shape. intransitive
"Under the old method the material coned at the bottom of the borehole and as a result it would not go under houses and buildings."
- 4 To segregate or delineate an area using traffic cones.
"The area occupied by the works should be coned off and the usual advance warning signs should be provided on all approaches"
Proper Noun
- 1 A surname. countable, uncountable
- 2 An unincorporated community in Milan Township, Monroe County, Michigan, United States. countable, uncountable
- 3 An unincorporated community in Crosby County, Texas, United States. countable, uncountable
Synonyms
All synonymsExample
"Can you give me the definition of a cone?"
Common questions
What is a synonym for "cone"?
Common synonyms include: acoustical network, ament, capacitor speaker, capitulum, carton, case.
How do you use "cone" in a sentence?
Can you give me the definition of a cone?
How do you pronounce "cone"?
Pronounced /ˈkəʊn/.
Etymology
From Middle English cone (“corner, angle”) and conoun (“cone”), from Medieval Latin cōnus, cōnon (“cone, wedge, peak”), from Ancient Greek κῶνος (kônos, “cone, spinning top, pine cone”). Reinforced by Middle French cone, from the same Graeco-Latin source.