Sphere vs Cone - What's the difference?
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(mathematics) A regular three-dimensional object in which every cross-section is a circle; the figure described by the revolution of a circle about its diameter .
A spherical physical object; a globe or ball.
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* 2011 , Piers Sellers, The Guardian , 6 July:
* 1635 , John Donne, "His parting form her":
(historical, astronomy, mythology) Any of the concentric hollow transparent globes formerly believed to rotate around the Earth, and which carried the heavenly bodies; there were originally believed to be eight, and later nine and ten; friction between them was thought to cause a harmonious sound (the music of the spheres ).
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* 1646 , (Thomas Browne), Pseudodoxia Epidemica , I.6:
(mythology) An area of activity for a planet; or by extension, an area of influence for a god, hero etc.
(figuratively) The region in which something or someone is active; one's province, domain.
* 1946 , (Bertrand Russell), History of Western Philosophy , I.20:
(geometry) The set of all points in three-dimensional Euclidean space (or n -dimensional space, in topology) that are a fixed distance from a fixed point .
(logic) The extension of a general conception, or the totality of the individuals or species to which it may be applied.
To place in a sphere, or among the spheres; to ensphere.
* Shakespeare
To make round or spherical; to perfect.
(label) A surface of revolution formed by rotating a segment of a line around another line that intersects the first line.
(label) A solid of revolution formed by rotating a triangle around one of its altitudes.
(label) A space formed by taking the direct product of a given space with a closed interval and identifying all of one end to a point.
Anything shaped like a cone.The Illustrated Oxford Dictionary , Oxford University Press, 1998
The fruit of a conifer.
An ice cream cone.
A traffic cone
A unit of volume, applied solely to marijuana and only while it is in a smokable state; roughly 1.5 cubic centimetres, depending on use.
Any of the small cone-shaped structures in the retina.
(label) The bowl piece on a bong.
(label) The process of smoking cannabis in a bong.
(label) A cone-shaped cannabis joint.
(label) A passenger on a cruise ship (so-called by employees after traffic cones, from the need to navigate around them)
(label) Given a diagram F'' : ''J'' → ''C'', a ''cone'' consists of an object ''N'' of ''C'', together with a family of morphisms ψ''X'' : ''N'' → ''F''(''X'') indexed by all of the objects of ''J'', such that for every morphism ''f'' : ''X'' → ''Y'' in ''J'', . Then ''N'' is the ''vertex'' of the ''cone'', whose ''sides'' are all the ψ''X'' indexed by Ob(''J'') and whose ''base'' is ''F''. The ''cone'' is said to be "from ''N'' to ''F''" and can be denoted as (''N , ψ).
A shell of the genus Conus , having a conical form.
A set of formal languages with certain desirable closure properties, in particular those of the regular languages, the context-free languages and the recursively enumerable languages.
(label) To fashion into the shape of a .
(label) To segregate or delineate an area using traffic cones
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As nouns the difference between sphere and cone
is that sphere is (mathematics) a regular three-dimensional object in which every cross-section is a circle; the figure described by the revolution of a circle about its diameter while cone is (label) a surface of revolution formed by rotating a segment of a line around another line that intersects the first line.As verbs the difference between sphere and cone
is that sphere is to place in a sphere, or among the spheres; to ensphere while cone is (label) to fashion into the shape of a .sphere
English
(wikipedia sphere)Alternative forms
* (archaic) * sphear (archaic)Noun
(en noun)- Of celestial bodies, first the sun, / A mighty sphere , he framed.
- So your orientation changes a little bit but it sinks in that the world is a sphere , and you're going around it, sometimes under it, sideways, or over it.
- Though cold and darkness longer hang somewhere, / Yet Phoebus equally lights all the Sphere .
- It is more simplicitie to teach our children[t]he knowledge of the starres, and the motion of the eighth spheare , before their owne.
- They understood not the motion of the eighth sphear from West to East, and so conceived the longitude of the Stars invariable.
- They thought – originally on grounds derived from religion – that each thing or person had its or his proper sphere , to overstep which is ‘unjust’.
Synonyms
* (object) ball, globe, orb * (region of activity) area, domain, field, orbit, sector * (in geometry) (''topology ) * See celestial sphere * See celestial bodyDerived terms
* blogosphere * sphere of influence * sphere of interestSee also
* ball (in topology ) *Mathworld article on the sphere*
Verb
(spher)- The glorious planet Sol / In noble eminence enthroned and sphered / Amidst the other.
- (Tennyson)
Anagrams
* * ----cone
English
(wikipedia cone)Noun
(en noun)- «Let J'' be an index category which has an initial object ''I''. Let ''F'' be a diagram of type ''J'' in ''C''. Then category ''C'' contains a cone from ''F''(''I'') to ''F .»
- «If category C'' has a cone from ''N'' to ''F'' and a morphism from ''M'' to ''N'', then category ''C'' also has a cone from ''M'' to ''F .»