Definition of CONE

cone

Plural: cones

Noun

  • any cone-shaped artifact
  • a shape whose base is a circle and whose sides taper up to a point
  • cone-shaped mass of ovule- or spore-bearing scales or bracts
  • a visual receptor cell in the retina that is sensitive to bright light and to color
  • A surface of revolution formed by rotating a segment of a line around another line that intersects the first line.
  • A solid of revolution formed by rotating a triangle around one of its altitudes.
  • 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.
  • Anything in the general shape of a cone.
  • The fruit of a conifer.
  • Anything in the general shape of a cone.
  • A cone-shaped flower head of various plants, such as banksias and proteas.
  • 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.
  • Anything in the general shape of a cone.
  • An ice cream cone.
  • Anything in the general shape of a cone.
  • A traffic cone.
  • Anything in the general shape of a cone.
  • A traffic cone.
  • A passenger on a cruise ship (that needs to be navigated around).
  • Anything in the general shape of a cone.
  • A cone-shaped cannabis joint.
  • Anything in the general shape of a cone.
  • A shell of the genus Conus, having a conical form.
  • Any of the small cone-shaped structures in the retina.
  • The bowl piece on a bong.
  • The bowl piece on a bong.
  • The process of smoking cannabis in a bong.
  • 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 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

Verb Forms: coned, coning, cones

  • To shape something like a cone, a geometric solid.
  • make cone-shaped
    • "cone a tire"
  • To fashion into the shape of a cone.
  • To form a cone shape.
  • To segregate or delineate an area using traffic cones.

Examples

  • 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.)
  • He tried to CONE his opponent’s thinking, making them believe certain letters were gone.

Origin / 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.

Synonyms

cone cell, cone shape, conoid, retinal cone, strobile, strobilus, conical surface, cornet, ice cream cone

Scrabble Score: 6

cone: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Word
cone: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
cone: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary

Words With Friends Score: 8

cone: valid Words With Friends Word