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right circular cone
noun
Geometry.
- a cone whose surface is generated by lines joining a fixed point to the points of a circle, the fixed point lying on a perpendicular through the center of the circle.
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51Թ History and Origins
Origin of right circular cone1
First recorded in 1940–45
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In practice the right circular cone, or cone of revolution, is the important type, and special attention should be given to this form.
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Thus the tangents drawn from any finite centre to a sphere form a right circular cone, and this will be cut by any plane in a conic.
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