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Conoid vs Conocuneus - What's the difference?

conoid | conocuneus |

As nouns the difference between conoid and conocuneus

is that conoid is anything shaped like a cone while conocuneus is a conical wedge; a conoid.

As an adjective conoid

is shaped like a cone; conical.

conoid

English

(wikipedia conoid)

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Shaped like a cone; conical

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • Anything shaped like a cone.
  • (geometry) A Catalan surface all of whose rulings intersect some fixed line.
  • (geometry) A solid formed by the revolution of a conic section about its axis.
    • A parabolic conoid''' is a paraboloid; an elliptic '''conoid is an ellipsoid.

    Hyponyms

    * (geometry) right conoid ⊃ hyperbolic paraboloid

    conocuneus

    English

    Noun

  • (mathematics) A conical wedge; a conoid

    • References

    * MathWorld