spheroconic
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Noun
[edit]spheroconic (plural spheroconics)
- (geometry) A non-plane curve formed by the intersection of the surface of an oblique cone with the surface of a sphere centred at the cone's vertex.
Adjective
[edit]spheroconic
- (malacology, of a shell or fossil) Having a coiled shell approaching a sphere in shape.
Further reading
[edit]- “spheroconic”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.