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cone | American Dictionary

cone
noun[ C ]
us/koʊn/
geometry
a solid shape with a round base that narrows to a point at the top
geometry
A cone is also any object shaped like a cone, some of which are hollow and open at the end:
ice cream in a waffle cone
geometry
A cone is also an ice-cream cone
geometry
A cone is also the hard, oval fruit of an evergreen tree.

Examples of cone

cone
Labeled axons could be followed for many millimeters, and growth cones were consistently labeled.
Perhaps the peak sensitivity of my long-wave cones is slightly displaced from that of yours.
However, nictitation was not observed on the upright cones, because the larvae that reached the top became trapped in the water wells.
The photons of this frequency have been reflected off, captured by my retina and absorbed by the photoreceptors containing a blue-responding pigment ("blue cones").
Then one can define the cone's generating line.
There is a lot of ambiguity in such an illustration, which has to come with some additional information about the distinguished projective cones.
The cones did not appear to be chemically or electrically coupled.
The second class of non-polyhedral cones we consider gives rise to semidefinite programming problems.
The present experiments were successful in eliminating this difficulty by performing the experiments with cones.
One of the motivations for repeating the experiments with cones was that the end effect is automatically removed in axisymmetric flow.
The presence of oil droplets indicated that at least some of these photoreceptors were cones.
In this model, the specific connection between cones and horizontal cells and the feedback effect from horizontal cells to cones plays a key role.
We have used this approach to characterize the cones of insectivores.
Spectral sensitivities of the middleand long-wavelength sensitive cones derived from measurements in observers of known genotype.
Chromatic properties of retinal ganglion cells can be modeled through random connections between cones and later neurons; alternatively connectional specificity may be present.
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cone of light
The aperture causes only the central region of the coneoflight to reach the detector.
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