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  • Thumbnail for Light cone
    relativity, a light cone (or "null cone") is the path that a flash of light, emanating from a single event (localized to a single point in space and a single...
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    are included in the base, the cone is a solid object; otherwise it is a two-dimensional object in three-dimensional space. In the case of a solid object...
    17 KB (2,283 words) - 20:37, 16 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Convex cone
    linear algebra, a cone—sometimes called a linear cone for distinguishing it from other sorts of cones—is a subset of a vector space that is closed under...
    24 KB (3,255 words) - 07:43, 15 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Dual cone and polar cone
    Dual cone and polar cone are closely related concepts in convex analysis, a branch of mathematics. The dual cone C* of a subset C in a linear space X over...
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    National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) as part of the Space Shuttle program. Its official program name was Space Transportation System (STS)...
    110 KB (12,156 words) - 17:03, 17 October 2024
  • geometry, the tangent cone is a generalization of the notion of the tangent space to a manifold to the case of certain spaces with singularities. In...
    6 KB (1,080 words) - 21:06, 28 September 2024
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    Null vector (redirect from Null cone)
    their null cones representing the light tracking into and out of 0 ∈ A, suggest spacetime topology. The light-like vectors of Minkowski space are null vectors...
    5 KB (582 words) - 15:33, 26 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for Vapor cone
    A vapor cone (also known as a Mach diamond, shock collar, or shock egg) is a visible cloud of condensed water that can sometimes form around an object...
    4 KB (391 words) - 16:53, 9 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for Color space
    represented as a convex cone in the 3- D linear space, which is referred to as the color cone. Colors can be created in printing with color spaces based on the CMYK...
    23 KB (2,700 words) - 13:44, 13 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Cone cell
    Cone cells or cones are photoreceptor cells in the retinas of vertebrates' eyes. They respond differently to light of different wavelengths, and the combination...
    16 KB (1,938 words) - 11:34, 23 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Cinder cone
    A cinder cone (or scoria cone) is a steep conical hill of loose pyroclastic fragments, such as volcanic clinkers, volcanic ash, or scoria that has been...
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  • Thumbnail for Cone (topology)
    In topology, especially algebraic topology, the cone of a topological space X {\displaystyle X} is intuitively obtained by stretching X into a cylinder...
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  • Thumbnail for Tetrachromacy
    types of cone cell in the eye. Organisms with tetrachromacy are called tetrachromats. In tetrachromatic organisms, the sensory color space is four-dimensional...
    25 KB (2,713 words) - 16:53, 3 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Cone Nebula
    The Cone Nebula is an H II region in the constellation of Monoceros. It was discovered by William Herschel on December 26, 1785, at which time he designated...
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  • relativity, or more specifically Minkowski space, physicists often refer to a "light cone". A light cone represents any possible future evolution of...
    14 KB (1,924 words) - 06:15, 5 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for LMS color space
    LMS (long, medium, short), is a color space which represents the response of the three types of cones of the human eye, named for their responsivity (sensitivity)...
    25 KB (3,562 words) - 01:42, 9 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for Solid geometry
    polyhedrons), cubes, cylinders, cones (and truncated cones). The Pythagoreans dealt with the regular solids, but the pyramid, prism, cone and cylinder were not...
    9 KB (375 words) - 17:33, 22 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for Ordered vector space
    family of proper cones is again a proper cone. Each proper cone C {\displaystyle C} in a real vector space induces an order on the vector space by defining...
    23 KB (3,901 words) - 09:54, 26 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for Mapping cone (topology)
    mathematics, especially homotopy theory, the mapping cone is a construction in topology analogous to a quotient space and denoted C f {\displaystyle C_{f}} . Alternatively...
    8 KB (1,311 words) - 02:12, 28 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for Freestyle slalom skating
    equally spaced cones. The most common spacing used in competitions is 80 centimetres (31 in), with larger competitions also featuring lines spaced at 50...
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