Unnumbered source etymology · variant 1/2
Original entry ↗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. · The fruit of a conifer or a similarly shaped fruit or flower head of certain other plants, such as banksias and proteas.
From Middle English cone (“corner, angle”) and conoun (“cone”), from Medieval Latin cōnus, cōnon (“cone, wedge, peak”), from Ancient Greek κῶνος (kônos, “cone, spinning top, pine cone”). Reinforced by Middle French cone, from the same Graeco-Latin source.
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