Conical is an adjective which means cone shaped, as in an object having a cylindrical base which tapers off to a pointed tip. Some of the synonyms for the word conical are conic, cone-shaped and conelike. Conical can be described as relating to a cone or resembling a cone.
A conical projection is a technique of delineating the face of a sphere upon a plane such that it seems projected upon the face of a cone. This method is mainly made use of in Europe by makers of maps. A conical surface in geometry is a surface that may be described by a right line which moves along a curve that always passes through a fixed point which is not in the plane surface of that curve.
The noun form of the word conical is conicity while the adverb form is conically.
A conical projection is a technique of delineating the face of a sphere upon a plane such that it seems projected upon the face of a cone. This method is mainly made use of in Europe by makers of maps. A conical surface in geometry is a surface that may be described by a right line which moves along a curve that always passes through a fixed point which is not in the plane surface of that curve.
The noun form of the word conical is conicity while the adverb form is conically.
