cone

Pine cone (5)

Meanings

A surface of revolution formed by rotating a segment of a line around another line that intersects the first line.
A solid of revolution formed by rotating a triangle around one of its altitudes.
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 fruit of a conifer.
A cone-shaped flower head of various plants, such as banksias and proteas.
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.
The bowl piece on a bong.
The process of smoking cannabis in a bong.
A cone-shaped cannabis joint.
A passenger on a cruise ship (so-called by employees after traffic cones, from the need to navigate around them)
An object V together with an arrow going from V to each object of a diagram such that for any arrow A in the diagram, the pair of arrows from V which subtend A also commute with it. (Then V can be said to be the cone’s vertex and the diagram which the cone subtends can be said to be its base.)
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.

From Middle French cone, from Latin conus ("cone, wedge, peak"), from Ancient Greek κῶνος ("cone, spinning top, pine cone")
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