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  • 1Conical scanning — is a system used in early radar units to improve their accuracy, as well as making it easier to steer the antenna properly to point at a target. Conical scanning is similar in concept to the earlier lobe switching concept used on some of the… …

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  • 2conical flask — UK US noun [countable] [singular conical flask plural conical flasks] science a glass container used in laboratories that has a circular base and rises to a point …

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  • 3conical — / conic [adj] shaped cylindrically and with a point coned, cone shaped, conoid, conoidal, funnel shaped, pointed, pyramidal, sharp, strobilate, strobiloid, tapered, tapering; concept 486 …

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  • 4Conical 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… …

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  • 5Conical intersection — Ideal Conical Intersection In quantum chemistry, a conical intersection of two potential energy surfaces of the same spatial and spin symmetries is the set of molecular geometry points where the two potential energy surfaces are degenerate… …

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  • 6Conical combination — Given a finite number of vectors in a real vector space, a conical combination or a conical sum [1] [2] of these vectors is a vector of the form where the real numbers satisfy …

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  • 7Conical — Conic Con ic, Conical Con ic*al, a. [Gr. ?: cf. F. conique. See {Cone}.] 1. Having the form of, or resembling, a geometrical cone; round and tapering to a point, or gradually lessening in circumference; as, a conic or conical figure; a conical… …

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  • 8Conical pendulum — Conic Con ic, Conical Con ic*al, a. [Gr. ?: cf. F. conique. See {Cone}.] 1. Having the form of, or resembling, a geometrical cone; round and tapering to a point, or gradually lessening in circumference; as, a conic or conical figure; a conical… …

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  • 9Conical projection — Conic Con ic, Conical Con ic*al, a. [Gr. ?: cf. F. conique. See {Cone}.] 1. Having the form of, or resembling, a geometrical cone; round and tapering to a point, or gradually lessening in circumference; as, a conic or conical figure; a conical… …

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  • 10Conical surface — Conic Con ic, Conical Con ic*al, a. [Gr. ?: cf. F. conique. See {Cone}.] 1. Having the form of, or resembling, a geometrical cone; round and tapering to a point, or gradually lessening in circumference; as, a conic or conical figure; a conical… …

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