cone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkəʊn/
ipa: /ˈkoʊn/
rhymes: -əʊn
Forms: form: cones
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.
Senses: topics: geometry
mathematics
sciences
glosses: A surface of revolution formed by rotating a segment of a line around another line that intersects the first line.
topics: geometry
mathematics
sciences
glosses: A solid of revolution formed by rotating a triangle around one of its altitudes.
topics: mathematics
sciences
topology
glosses: 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.
glosses: Anything in the general shape of a cone.
The fruit of a conifer.
glosses: Anything in the general shape of a cone.
A cone-shaped flower head of various plants, such as banksias and proteas.
glosses: 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.
glosses: Anything in the general shape of a cone.
An ice cream cone.
glosses: Anything in the general shape of a cone.
A traffic cone.
glosses: Anything in the general shape of a cone.
A traffic cone.
A passenger on a cruise ship (that needs to be navigated around).
glosses: Anything in the general shape of a cone.
A cone-shaped cannabis joint.
glosses: Anything in the general shape of a cone.
A shell of the genus Conus, having a conical form.
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Any of the small cone-shaped structures in the retina.
glosses: The bowl piece on a bong.
glosses: The bowl piece on a bong.
The process of smoking cannabis in a bong.
examples: text: 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.)
topics: category-theory
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
hyponyms: limit
glosses: 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.)
topics: computing
computing-theory
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: 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.
Synonyms: topics: geometry
mathematics
sciences
word: conical surface
sense: ice cream cone
word: cornet
sense: ice cream cone
word: ice cream cone
Derived terms: anterocone
berry-cone
bicone
bristlecone
cinder cone
circular cone
cocone
conal
conebill
cone biopsy
cone bush
cone cabbage
cone cell
cone connector
cone flower
coneflower
cone-flower
conehead
Conehead
coneheaded
cone-headed
cone-in-cone
coneless
conelike
conenose
cone of confusion
cone of death
cone off
cone of power
cone of shame
cone of silence
cone pepper
conepiece
cone plant
coner
cone-shaped
cone shell
cone snail
conetainer
cone tracing
conetronics
cone wheat
coneworm
conic
conic section
coniform
conization
conoid
conopeptide
conotoxin
cyrtocone
decapicone
deuterocone
dicone
Dirac cone
discocone
elliptospherocone
endocone
epicone
fir-cone
flying cone
growth cone
gyrocone
helicocone
hydraucone
hypercone
hypocone
ice-cream cone
ice cream cone
intercone
lava cone
light cone
mesocone
metacone
microcone
mouth cone
mud cone
nanocone
nose cone
oligocone
otocone
overcone
oxycone
paracone
pet cone
phragmocone
piezocone
pinecone
pine cone
pine-cone
platycone
polar cone
protocone
pseudocone
roller cone bit
roller-cone bit
seed cone
semicone
serpenticone
shatter cone
shattercone
snow cone
snowcone
spatter cone
spherical cone
spherocone
spruce cone
storm cone
subcone
sugar cone
sulfur cone
sulphur cone
tail cone
textile cone
toxocone
traffic cone
viewing cone
waffle cone
wind cone
witch-hazel cone gall
witch-hazel cone gall aphid
Related terms: coign
coin
cuneiform
quoin
quean
queen