generatrix of cone

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• Cone (geometry) — Not to be confused with the conical surface.. A right circular cone and an oblique circular cone A cone is an n dimensional geometric shape that tapers smoothly from a base (usually flat and circular) to a point called the apex or vertex.… …   Wikipedia

• cone — /kohn/, n., v., coned, coning. n. 1. Geom. a. a solid whose surface is generated by a line passing through a fixed point and a fixed plane curve not containing the point, consisting of two equal sections joined at a vertex. b. a plane surface… …   Universalium

• generatrix —    A geometric element that generates a geometric figure, especially a straight line that generates a surface by moving in a specified way. Also called generator. (pr. je ne ray triks) The plural form is generatrices. Also see cone, cylinder, and …   Glossary of Art Terms

• Taylor cone — A Taylor cone refers to the cone observed in electrospray and hydrodynamic spray processes from which a jet of charged particles emanates above a threshold voltage. Aside from electrospray ionization in mass spectrometry the Taylor cone is… …   Wikipedia

• Conic section — Types of conic sections: 1. Parabola 2. Circle and ellipse 3. Hyperbola …   Wikipedia

• Conical surface — A circular conical surface In geometry, a (general) conical surface is the unbounded surface formed by the union of all the straight lines that pass through a fixed point the apex or vertex and any point of some fixed space curve the directrix… …   Wikipedia

• directrix —    The fixed curve traversed by a generatrix in generating either a cone or a cylinder. (pr. de rek triks) The plural may be either directrixes or directrices …   Glossary of Art Terms

• circle and ellipseellipse —    A plane curve, especially either a conic section whose plane is not parallel to the axis, base, or generatrix of the intersected cone, or the locus of points for which the sum of the distances from each point to two fixed points is equal. Note …   Glossary of Art Terms