conoidal

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It is of conoidal form, with an irregular elliptic base, and rises abruptly to a height of 1114 ft.

From The Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia Volume 1 of 28 by Project Gutenberg

Many different forms have been given to the heads of projectiles, as flat, ogival, hemispherical, conoidal, parabolic, blunt trifaced, etc.

From Scientific American Supplement, No. 803, May 23, 1891 by Various

The red rover of that region will disappear as a combatant in the same way, and before the same weapon, as his brother nomad of Algeria, the earliest victim of the conoidal bullet.

From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 15, No. 85, January, 1875 by Various

Meanwhile, as an alternative form the conoidal seal, rounded at the top and having a flat base for the intaglio, came into use beside the cylinder.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 5 "Gassendi, Pierre" to "Geocentric" by Various

These emanations may be regarded as conoidal envelopes of greater of less thickness, p 102 and, considered in this manner, they furnish a simple explanation of many of the remarkable optical phenomena already spoken of.

From COSMOS: A Sketch of the Physical Description of the Universe, Vol. 1 by Humboldt, Alexander von