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A cone (from the Greek κῶνος, Latin conu) is a basic geometrical shape; see cone (geometry). Cone may also refer to:
  • 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
  • Elizabethan collar, a cone-shaped collar worn by pets
  • Ice cream cone, an edible container in which ice cream is served, shaped like an inverted cone open at its top
  • Pyrometric cone, in ceramic manufacture, a contolled mixture of minerals used to gauge the extent of firing
  • Traffic cone, a brightly colored cone-shaped plastic object commonly used as a temporary traffic barrier or warning sign
  • Skid cone, a cone like object place before a log in forrestry
  • Volcanic cone, a mountain formed by material ejected from a volcanic vent
  • A type of optical fiber that tapers almost to a point
  • The part of a loudspeaker that moves the air, creating sound waves constantly
  • A colloquial Australian term for cannabis, most commonly a bong load or 'bowl' of cannabis
  • In cartography, a type of projection; see map projection
As a proper name:
  • Cone (software), a text-based e-mail and news client for Unix-like operating systems
  • David Cone, retired baseball pitcher
  • Fairfax M. Cone, an American advertising executive
  • Jason McCaslin, nicknamed Cone, bassist for the Canadian band Sum 41 In mathematics:
  • 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's 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, either a central projection or a perspective projectionFurther Information

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