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cones, plural;
  1. A solid or hollow object that tapers from a circular or roughly circular base to a point

  2. A surface or solid figure generated by the straight lines that pass from a circle or other closed curve to a single point (the vertex) not in the same plane as the curve. A cone with the vertex perpendicularly over the center of a circular base is aright circular cone

  3. A plastic cone-shaped object that is used to separate off or close sections of a road

  4. An edible wafer container shaped like a cone in which ice cream is served

  5. A conical mountain or peak, esp. one of volcanic origin

  6. A ceramic pyramid that melts at a known temperature and is used to indicate the temperature of a kiln

  7. The dry fruit of a conifer, typically tapering to a rounded end and formed of a tight array of overlapping scales on a central axis that separate to release the seeds

  8. A flower resembling a pine cone, esp. that of the hop plant

  9. A light-sensitive cell of one of the two types present in the retina of the eye, responding mainly to bright light and responsible for sharpness of vision and color perception

  1. make cone-shaped; "cone a tire"
  2. (cone) a shape whose base is a circle and whose sides taper up to a point
  3. cone-shaped mass of ovule- or spore-bearing scales or bracts
  4. (cone) a visual receptor cell in the retina that is sensitive to bright light and to color
  5. Secretaría de Estado de Educación Superior, Ciencia y Tecnología (SEESCYT) is the Ministry of Higher Education, Science and Technology in the Dominican Republic. It was formerly known as Consejo Nacional de Educación Superior (CONES).
  6. Conidae is a taxonomic family of minute to quite large sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Conoidea.
  7. Cone cells, or cones, are photoreceptor cells in the retina of the eye that function best in relatively bright light. The cone cells gradually become sparser towards the periphery of the retina.
  8. (Cone (botany)) A cone (in formal botanical usage: strobilus, plural strobili) is an organ on plants in the division Pinophyta (conifers) that contains the reproductive structures. The familiar woody cone is the female cone, which produces seeds. ...
  9. (Cone (category theory)) In category theory, a branch of mathematics, the cone of a functor is an abstract notion used to define the limit of that functor. Cones make other appearances in category theory as well.
  10. (Cone (formal languages)) In formal language theory, a cone is a set of formal languages that has some desirable closure properties enjoyed by some well-known sets of languages, in particular by the families of regular languages, context-free languages and the recursive languages . ...
  11. (cone) 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 ...
  12. (Cone) Photoreceptors in the retina containing light-sensitive pigments responsible for seeing color.
  13. (cone) A photosensitive receptor in the retina that helps you to see color.
  14. (Cone) A rounded, more or less elongated cluster of fruits or flowers covered with scales or bracts.
  15. (cone) Light-sensitive retinal receptor cell that provides sharp visual acuity and color discrimination.
  16. (Cone) Used in a kiln, a pyrometric cone deforms when the proper heat work is achieved. Various cones are made to either trigger mechanical shut off (Dawson Kiln Sitter ) or to act as a witness to kiln conditions.
  17. (cone) The conical part of an oxyfuel gas flame next to the orifice of the tip.
  18. (Cone) The conical diaphragm of a speaker attached to the voice coil that produces waves in the air that the ear detects as sound.
  19. (Cone) A solid bounded by a circle called the base and by a curved surface called the lateral surface which ends in a point called the vertex.
  20. (Cone) A three-dimensional figure with one vertex and a circular base
  21. (Cone) Incense in this form burns relatively fast. Cone incense containing mugwort are used in Traditional Chinese medicine for moxibustion treatment.
  22. (Cone) A coniferous reproductive structure, having a number of woody, leathery, or fleshy scales, each bearing one or more seeds, and attached to a central axis.
  23. (cone) a reproductive structure composed of an axis (branch) bearing sterile bract-like organs and seed or pollen bearing structures. ...
  24. (cone) a fruit with woody, overlapping scales.
  25. (Cone) The reproductive structure of Coniferous trees (which have bare seeds ie. not enclosed in an ovary).