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conoidal en · ADJ

Etymology

From conoid + -al.

Meanings

  1. (not-comparable) Having the shape of a conoid; having a roughly conical shape.
    • And a moment later a conoidal bullet struck him square in the chest and knocked him flat in the dirt among his comrades. 1910, Robert W. Chambers, Ailsa Paige:
    • Many different forms have been given to the heads of projectiles, as flat, ogival, hemispherical, conoidal, parabolic, blunt trifaced, etc. 1891, Various, Scientific American Supplement, No. 803, May 23, 1891:

Deriveds

preconoidal · interconoidal · conoidally · intraconoidal

Translations (5)

es conoideo (having the shape of a conoid) · fr conoïdal (having the shape of a conoid) · pt conoidal (having the shape of a conoid) · es conoidal (having the shape of a conoid) · ca conoidal (having the shape of a conoid)