Cone

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A cone (from the Greek κῶνος, Latin conus) is a basic geometrical shape; see cone (geometry). It may also be used:

Contents 1 For cone-shaped objects 2 In biology 3 In mathematics and cartography 4 In computers 5 As a personal name

[edit] For cone-shaped objects

• Ice cream cone, an edible container in which ice cream is served, shaped like an inverted cone open at its top
• Nose cone, the forward end of rockets and some airplanes
• Pyrometric cone, used to monitor the extent of firing in pottery manufacture
• Skid cone, a cone like object placed before a log in forestry
• Traffic cone, a brightly colored cone-shaped plastic object commonly used as a temporary traffic barrier or warning sign
• Volcanic cone, a mountain formed by material ejected from a volcanic vent

And also:

• Elizabethan collar, a cone-shaped collar worn by pets
• The cone of a loudspeaker, the part that moves the air, creating sound waves
• A cone-shaped optical fiber, that tapers almost to a point
• A portion of cannabis, in colloquial Australian; most commonly a bong load or a bowl (smoking)

[edit] In biology

• Conifer cone, a seed-bearing organ on conifer plants
• Cone cell, in anatomy, a type of light-sensitive cell found along with rods in the retina of the eye
• Cone snail, a carnivorous molluscs of the family Conidae

[edit] In mathematics and cartography

• Cone (geometry), a basic solid shape
• Cone (category theory), a family of morphisms resembling a geometric cone
• Cone (formal languages), an abstract family of languages that contains the languages with a regular grammar
• Cone (linear algebra), a subset of vector space closed under positive scaling
• Cone (topology) of a set X, namely the union of all line segments connecting a fixed point to points of X
• Cone graph, in graph theory, a graph with a universal vertex
• Conic section, any curve obtained by cutting a conical surface by an arbitrary plane
• Conical surface, generated by a moving line with one fixed point
• Convex cone, a special case of the above that is closed under convex combinations
• Mapping cone (homological algebra) of a map of chain complexes
• Projective cone, a similar (but more general) concept in projective geometry
• Conical projection, in geometry, either a central projection or a perspective projection
• Conical projection, in cartography, a type of projection; see map projection

[edit] In computers

• Cone (software), a text-based e-mail and news client for Unix-like operating systems

[edit] As a personal name

• David Cone, retired baseball pitcher
• Fairfax M. Cone, an American advertising executive
• Frederick P. Cone (1871-1948), governor of Florida
• Jason McCaslin, nicknamed Cone, bassist for the Canadian band Sum 41
• John Cone, professional wrestling referee
• The Cone sisters: Claribel Cone (1864–1929) and Etta Cone (1870–1949), collectors and socialites

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