Look up: cone

1. Cone
   [software] Cone is a text-based e-mail client and news client for Unix-like operating systems. It is developed by the Courier Mail Server developers. Its name stands for "console newsreader and emailer". Notable features include support for Unicode and support for SMAP. ...
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2. Cone
   [category theory] In category theory, a branch of mathematics, the cone of a functor is an abstract notion used to define the limit of that functor. Cones make other appearances in category theory as well. ==Definition== Let F : J → C be a diagram in C. Formally, a diagram is nothing more ...
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3. Cone
   Thin, finger-length pyramid of ceramic material made to bend and melt at prescribed temperatures, providing a visual indication of temperature in the kiln.
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4. Cone
   A primary receptor cell for vision located in the retina. It is sensitive to color and used primarily for daytime vision.
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5. cone
   (I) A tapered cylinder of wood, metal, or cardboard around which YARN is wound. (II) A PACKAGE of YARN wound into a convenient shape.
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6. cone
   [n] - a shape whose base is a circle and whose sides taper up to a point 2. [n] - cone-shaped mass of ovule- or spore-bearing scales or bracts 3. [n] - visual receptor cell sensitive to color 4. [n] - any cone-shaped artifact 5. [v] - make cone-shaped
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7. Cone
   A reproductive organ consisting of a central axis surrounded by tightly packed scales. These scales bear either spores or seeds. When mature, cones may either open up or disintegrate to release their contents.
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8. Cone
   Something used to carry the seeds of conifers.
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9. Cone
   In a watch fitted with a fusee, the tapered, spiral-grooved drum onto which the chain is wound and whose parabolically-curved profile provides the progressive gearing effect.   The cone incorporates the great wheel.  
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10. Cone
    The more luminous part of a flame, which is adjacent to the nozzle orifice.
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11. Cone
    The fruit of a conifer composed of a woody central stem hard overlapping seed-bearing scales
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12. cone
    a component of a downhole tool, such as a packer, used to wedge slips into the casing wall.
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13. Cone
    (1870-1949) US art collectors. Claribel Cone (1864-1929) and Etta Cone (1870-1949) were sisters who established an artistic salon and began collecting antiques, textiles, and modern paintings. The sisters...
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14. Cone
    A vertebrate photoreceptor that is primarily sensitive to lights with high intensity (e.g., daylight).
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15. cone
    A solid figure that has a circular base and one vertex
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16. Cone
    A rounded, more or less elongated cluster of fruits or flowers covered with scales or bracts.
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17. Cone
    Cone: A type of specialized light-sensitive cell (photoreceptor) in the retina of the eye that provide sharp central vision and color vision. By contrast, the rods are the retinal photoreceptors that provide side vision and the ability to see objects in dim light (night vision).
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18. cone
    that part of the envelope,usually in the form of a truncated cone,which lies between the neck and the face-plate Category: Electrical engineering and energy • (1)A conical support on which yarn is wound.(2)A conical package of yarn wound on a conical support. Category: Various industr...
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19. Cone
    Cone noun [ Latin conus cone (in sense 1), Greek ...; akin to Sanskrit çana whetstone, Latin cuneus wedge, and probably to English hone . See Hone , noun ] 1. (Geom.) A ...
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20. Cone
    Cone transitive verb To render cone-shaped; to bevel like the circular segment of a cone; as, to cone the tires of car wheels.
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21. cone
    1. <plant biology> In gymnosperms and club mosses, a group of sporophylls arranged compactly on a central axis, in the angiosperm family Casuarina, a woody multiple fruit incorporating the bracts and bracteoles associated with the flowers. ... 2. <physiology> The retinal cone responsible for colour vision. ... (03 Jul 1999) ...
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22. cone
    cone cell noun visual receptor cell sensitive to color
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23. cone
    noun any cone-shaped artifact
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24. cone
    strobilus noun cone-shaped mass of ovule- or spore-bearing scales or bracts
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25. cone
    conoid noun a shape whose base is a circle and whose sides taper up to a point
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