conical

From conic +‎ -al.

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

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• Hyphenation: con‧i‧cal

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.

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

• conicity

conical (plural conicals)

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

• cloacin, laconic, calocin, concial, calcino, Laconic, colanic