conical

English

Etymology

From conic +‎ -al.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈkɒnɪkəl/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈkɑnɪkəl/

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• Hyphenation: con‧i‧cal

Adjective

conical (comparative more conical, superlative most conical)

1. (geometry) Of or relating to a cone or cones.
   • 1665 November 6, “An Account of Hevelius his Prodromus Cometicus, together with some Animadversions made upon it by a French Philosopher”, in Henry Oldenburg, editor, Philosophical Transactions, volume I, number 6:

     He anſwers, That this Motion is Conical; and judgeth, that by the Conick path all the Phænomena of Comets can, without any inconveniency, be readily ſolved; even of that, which (by Hiſtory) in fifty days, paſſed through more then the 12 Signs of the Zodiack; And of that, which in two days run through eight Signs: and of another, which in 48 days poſted through all the Signs, contra ſeriem.

2. Shaped like a cone.
   • 1624, Edmund Gunter, chapter XIII, in The Description and Vse of the Sector‎^[1], London: Williã Jones, page 149:

     IN Planes neither equinoctiall nor polar, the equator will be a right line, the tropiques and other parallels of declination will be conicall ſections, ſome of them parabolicall, ſome ellipticall, but the moſt of them hyperbolicall.

3. (cartography) Describing a map projection in which meridians are mapped to equally spaced lines radiating out from the apex and parallels of latitude are mapped to circular arcs centred on the apex.

Synonyms

• (geometry): conic, conal
• (cartography): conic

Derived terms

• Asian conical hat
• conical buoy
• conical drum
• conical flask
• conical pepper
• double-conical drum
• double conical drum
• frusto-conical

 

Related terms

• conicity

Translations

of or relating to a cone

• Armenian: կոնական (hy) (konakan)
• Bulgarian: коничен (bg) (koničen)
• Catalan: cònic (ca)
• Cornish: pigornek
• Czech: kuželový, kónický (cs)
• Danish: konisk (da)
• Dutch: conisch (nl)
• Finnish: kartio-, kartion (fi)
• French: conique (fr)
• Galician: cónico (gl) m
• German: konisch (de)
• Greek: κωνικός (el) (konikós)

  Ancient: κωνικός (kōnikós)

• Irish: cónúil
• Italian: conico (it)
• Latin: conicus
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: konisk

  Nynorsk: konisk

• Polish: stożkowy (pl) m
• Portuguese: cónico (pt) (Portugal), cônico (pt) (Brazil)
• Romanian: conic (ro)
• Russian: кони́ческий (ru) (koníčeskij)
• Spanish: cónico (es)
• Swedish: konisk (sv)
• Turkish: konik (tr)
• Ukrainian: коні́чний (koníčnyj)

cone-shaped

• Armenian: կոնաձև (konajew)
• Bulgarian: конусовиден (konusoviden)
• Catalan: cònic (ca)
• Cornish: pigornek
• Czech: kuželový, kónický (cs)
• Danish: konisk (da)
• Dutch: conisch (nl)
• Esperanto: konusa
• Finnish: kartiomainen (fi)
• French: conique (fr)
• Galician: cónico (gl) m
• German: konisch (de)
• Greek: κωνικός (el) (konikós)

  Ancient: κωνικός (kōnikós)

• Icelandic: keilulaga, kónískur
• Irish: cónúil, coirceogach
• Italian: conico (it)
• Latin: conicus
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: konisk, kjegleformet

  Nynorsk: konisk

• Ottoman Turkish: سیوری (sivri)
• Polish: stożkowy (pl) m, stożkowaty (pl) m, koniczny (pl)
• Portuguese: cónico (pt) (Portugal), cônico (pt) (Brazil)
• Romanian: conic (ro)
• Russian: кони́ческий (ru) (koníčeskij), ко́нусный (ru) (kónusnyj), конусообра́зный (ru) (konusoobráznyj)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: ко̀ничан, сто̏жаст, чу̏њаст, ку̏паст

  Roman: kòničan (sh), stȍžast (sh), čȕnjast (sh), kȕpast (sh)

• Spanish: cónico (es)
• Swedish: konisk (sv)
• Telugu: కిరీటాకృతి (kirīṭākr̥ti)
• Turkish: konik (tr)
• Ukrainian: коні́чний (koníčnyj), конусоподі́бний (uk) (konusopodíbnyj)

Noun

conical (plural conicals)

1. (firearms) A bullet with a conical shape.

Anagrams

• calcino, calocin, cloacin, colanic, laconic