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conical (adjective sense 3) projection

Etymology

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    From conic + -al.

    Pronunciation

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    • Hyphenation: con‧ic‧al

    enPR: kŏn'ĭkəl

    enPR: kä'nĭkəl (father-bother merger)

    enPR: kō'nĭkəl (without laxing from cone)

    Adjective

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    conical (comparative more conical, superlative most conical)

    1. Shaped like a cone.
      Synonym: conic
      • 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.
    2. (The addition of quotations indicative of this usage is being sought:) (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.
      Synonym: conic

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    Noun

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    conical (plural conicals)

    1. (firearms) A cone-shaped bullet.

    Further reading

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    • conical”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

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