Sentence examples for truncated cone from inspiring English sources

The dome's center flares upward to form a truncated cone.

In shape, Badacsony resembles a low truncated cone.

The church was conceived as a single volume, a square base surmounted by a truncated cone.

Tarboosh, also spelled Tarbush, close-fitting, flat-topped, brimless hat shaped like a truncated cone.

The shape of a tell is generally that of a low truncated cone.

He gave the first correct formulas in India for the volume of a sphere and of a truncated cone.

The same material could be shredded into finely divided flexible hanks, which were twined together to make a slip-on rain cape shaped like a truncated cone.

A percussion cap was a truncated cone of metal (preferably copper) that contained a small amount of fulminate of mercury inside its crown, protected by foil and shellac.

At the bottom is a parallel-sided hearth where liquid metal and slag collect, and this is surmounted by an inverted truncated cone known as the bosh.

The town is dominated by Citadel Hill (1,217 feet), shaped like a truncated cone, which affords a commanding view of the Mureș valley.

The volcano consists of a truncated cone with a central crater, with some 70 lateral craters and cones on the lower slopes.