Word Meanings - CONIC - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A conic section.

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• SECTIONALITY
  The state or quality of being sectional; sectionalism.
• SECTIONALIZE
  To divide according to gepgraphical sections or local interests. The principal results of the struggle were to sectionalize parties. Nicilay & Hay .
• CONICO-
  A combining form, meaning somewhat resembling a cone; as, conico-cylindrical, resembling a cone and a cylinder; conico- hemispherical; conico-subulate.
• SECTIONALISM
  A disproportionate regard for the interests peculiar to a section of the country; local patriotism, as distinguished from national.
• CONICALITY
  Conicalness.
• SECTIONIZE
  To form into sections.
• CONICOID
  See CONOIDAL
• SECTIONALLY
  In a sectional manner.
• SECTIONAL
  1. Of or pertaining to a sections or distinct part of larger body or territory; local. All sectional interests, or party feelings, it is hoped, will hereafter yield to schemes of ambition. Story. 2. Consisting of sections, or capable
• CONICS
  1. That branch of geometry which treats of the cone and the curves which arise from its sections. 2. Conic sections.
• SECTION
  The figure made up of all the points common to a superficies and a solid which meet, or to two superficies which meet, or to two lines which meet. In the first case the section is a superficies, in the second a line, and in the third a point. (more
• CONIC
  A conic section.
• CONIC; CONICAL
  1. Having the form of, or resembling, a geometrical cone; round and tapering to a point, or gradually lessening in circumference; as, a conic or conical figure; a conical vessel. 2. Of or pertaining to a cone; as, conic sections. Conic section
• CONICALLY
  In the form of a cone.
• CONICALNESS
  State or quality of being conical.
• LACONIC; LACONICAL
  1. Expressing much in few words, after the manner of the Laconians or Spartans; brief and pithy; brusque; epigrammatic. In this sense laconic is the usual form. I grow laconic even beyond laconicism; for sometimes I return only yes, or
• LACONIC
  Laconism. Addison.
• SPHEROCONIC
  A nonplane curve formed by the intersection of the surface of an oblique cone with the surface of a sphere whose center is at the vertex of the cone.
• GLYCONIC
  Consisting of a spondee, a choriamb, and a pyrrhic; -- applied to a kind of verse in Greek and Latin poetry. -- n.
• ZIRCONIC
  Pertaining to, containing, or resembling, zirconium; as, zirconic oxide; zirconic compounds. Zirconic acid, an acid of zirconium analogous to carbonic and silicic acids, known only in its salts.
• LACONICISM
  See POPE
• BISECTION
  Division into two parts, esp. two equal parts.
• CROCONIC
  1. Of, pertaining to, or resembling saffron; having the color of saffron; as, croconic acid. 2. Pertaining to, or derived from, croconic acid. Croconic acid , a yellow crystalline substance, C5O3 2, obtained from potassium carboxide, rhodizonic
• MESACONIC
  Pertaining to, or designating, one of several isomeric acids obtained from citric acid.
• ANTIVIVISECTIONIST
  One opposed to vivisection
• MECONIC
  Pertaining to, or obtained from, the poppy or opium; specif. , designating an acid related to aconitic acid, found in opium and extracted as a white crystalline substance.
• INSECTION
  A cutting in; incisure; incision.
• GLUTACONIC
  Pertaining to, or derived from, an acid intermediate between glutaric and aconitic acids.