conoid

comparative more conoid · superlative most conoid

1. Shaped like a cone; conical.

   The rebuilding of Oxford Road Station, Manchester […] is progressing steadily, and the conoid roof has recently been erected.

   1959 May 28, “Notes and News: Oxford Road Station, Manchester”, in Railway Magazine, page 359

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   Historic England explained the listing: "The station's unique design employs a high level of sophistication and innovation through its use of conoid shells supported on a cruck-like frame, which not only create a dramatic aesthetic form, but endow the building with a light and spacious interior."

   2023 March 22, Philip Haigh, “Five configuration stages to boost Manchester rail capacity”, in RAIL, number 979, page 31

plural conoids

1. Anything shaped like a cone.

   The concourse is roofed with three conoids, ranging in width from 97 ft. 3 in. maximum to 41 ft. 6 in. minimum.

   1959 May 28, “Notes and News: Oxford Road Station, Manchester”, in Railway Magazine, page 359

2. geometryA Catalan surface all of whose rulings intersect some fixed line
3. geometryA solid formed by the revolution of a conic section about its axis

   A parabolic conoid is a paraboloid; an elliptic conoid is an ellipsoid.

4. anatomyThe pineal gland