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Contoid vs Conoid - What's the difference?

contoid | conoid |

As nouns the difference between contoid and conoid

is that contoid is a phonetic consonant, as opposed to a phonological one while conoid is anything shaped like a cone.

As an adjective conoid is

shaped like a cone; conical.

contoid

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • (linguistics) A phonetic consonant, as opposed to a phonological one.

    • See also

    * vocoid

    References

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    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